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Jungle Tales

Horacio Quiroga

Jungle Tales

Paper book: €14.99

Digital: €3.99

Original publication
1918
Pages
137
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Children's Literature
Moods
Be enchanted, Feel comforted, Have a laugh
Translated from
Spanish

Book summary

In the forest along the Paraná River, the animals talk, work and quarrel. In these eight tales, a giant turtle carries the man who had once nursed it all the way to the city, flamingos go to a ball in snakeskin stockings, and the crocodiles go to war against a ship.

Horacio Quiroga wrote these stories for his children, in the forest where he lived. They are funny, sometimes cruel, and one of them explains why flamingos have red legs.

Short and written in simple sentences, these tales can be read one by one in the language you are learning.

The plot

鳄鱼大战轮船。一条大河里住着几百条鳄鱼。一天,一艘蒸汽船的轰鸣声把它们的鱼全吓跑了。

The world of the book

巴拉那河畔的丛林。书中大多数故事发生在米西奥内斯的丛林里。这里位于阿根廷东北部,夹在巴西和巴拉圭之间,大河巴拉那河从旁流过。这里炎热潮湿,植物长得十分高大。鳄鱼、鹦鹉、蛇和蜜蜂生活在这里,在这些故事里,它们会互相交谈。

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