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Theme of the Week: Celebrating Authors of December

This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of December. Check them out below.

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Row 1: (L-R) Eleanor H. Porter, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick Row 2: (L-R) Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling

 

Joseph Conrad

(December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924)

Józef Teodor Konrad, known as his pen name Joseph Conrad, was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. The Secret Agent (1907) was made into a film in 1996.

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Jane Austen

(December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817)

Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.  She achieved success as a published writer with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818).

  

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Philip K. Dick     

(December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982)

Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher whose published work is almost entirely accepted as being in the science fiction genre. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) was made into the very popular 1982 film, Blade Runner.

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Eleanor H. Porter            

(December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920)

Porter was an American novelist who mainly wrote children’s literature, adventure stories and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913). It was made into a film in 1960.

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Rudyard Kipling     

(December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936)

Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Stalky & Co. (1899), Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906) and Rewards and Fairies (1910).

  

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Which Book Would You Read?

To celebrate Rudyard Kipling, we’d like to ask, which book would you read?

Just So Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

ISBN: 9780141321622

How did the camel get his hump? Why won’t cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling’s imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends’ children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other’s pleasure, but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading.

Published in 1902, these charming and whimsical fantasies for children—and adults who retain a love of the fantastic—are enduring classics.  Focusing on the explanation of origin, the book includes How the Leopard Got His Spots, How the Camel Got His Hump and The Cat That Walked by Himself.

15,9 GEL

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The Complete Children’s Short Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

ISBN: 9781840220575

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear.
How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories, Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions.
Puck of Pook’s Hill relates how Dan and Una’s magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings…
And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to ‘Good Queen Bess’ and Sir Francis Drake.
In Kipling’s rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, M’Turk and the Beetle are a trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules, their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children – especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster.
Kipling’s wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection.

16,5 GEL

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