PIG
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- 6,99 €
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- 6,99 €
Publisher Description
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, who wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children.
Published in 1888, “Pig” is a satirical short story, included in “Plain Tales from the Hills”, a collection of stories of life in India. This is one of a great many Kipling stories on the theme of revenge and retribution. Pinecoffin has sold Nafferton an ill-tempered horse, which turns out to be a very bad bargain. Nafferton is angry, Pinecoffin laughs at him, and Nafferton is determined to pay him back.
We are glad to present you the collection of short stories, written by the recognized master of children’s fiction! Enjoy the reading!
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Kipling's inspirational poem the one that begins, "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs" describes how to preserve one's honor by the principled avoidance of political and moral pitfalls. Italian artist Manna imagines the "you" of the poem as a boy journeying through a series of watercolor landscapes: fields under billowing clouds, misty nights, craggy mountaintops. To accompany the poem's first line, Manna paints the boy watching from a great green meadow as storm clouds approach; he stands and watches with a cool head, rather than running in fear. For "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew/ To serve your turn long after they are gone," Manna shows the boy climbing a rocky pitch, the peaks of other mountains poking through the clouds below. Flying kites represent temptation, and dull-eyed marionettes represent allies who can't be trusted ("If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken/ Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"). Though young readers may not fathom the poem's complexities, the grandeur of Manna's scenes conveys the loftiness of Kipling's sentiments. Ages 6 8.
