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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

鱷魚大戰輪船。一條大河裡住著幾百條鱷魚。一天,一艘蒸汽船的轟鳴聲把牠們的魚全嚇跑了。

The world of the book

巴拉那河畔的叢林。書中大多數故事發生在米西奧內斯的叢林裡。這裡位於阿根廷東北部,夾在巴西和巴拉圭之間,大河巴拉那河從旁流過。這裡炎熱潮濕,植物長得十分高大。鱷魚、鸚鵡、蛇和蜜蜂生活在這裡,在這些故事裡,牠們會互相交談。

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