Rudyard Kipling
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Treasury of 44 poems evokes stirring images of British character and attitudes at the height of the Empire. "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever," "If-," "The White Man's Burden," "The Female of the Species," many others, filled with character study, dramatic incident and rousing language New Notes to the Text. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
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The poems collected here are mostly light verse-"barrack-room ballads," Kipling called them-inspired by Kipling's early adventures as a newspaperman in British colonial India. The first book Kipling published, Departmental Ditties (1886), emphasizes the universality of human experience and the cross-cultural ubiquity of the ignoble and tragicomic aspects of human character.
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A a young mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is adopted into a British family residing in India. After becoming friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, Rikki is warned of two cobras Nag and Nagaina, who are angered by the family's presence on their territory.
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Excerpt: "His full name was Percival William Williams, but he picked up the other name in a nursery-book, and that was the end of the christened titles. His mother's ayah called him Willie-Baba, but as he never paid the faintest attention to anything that the ayah said, her wisdom did not help matters His father was the Colonel of the 195th, and as soon as Wee Willie Winkie was old enough to understand what Military Discipline meant, Colonel Williams...
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These stories, first published in 1902, are pour quoi stories: fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of The Jungle Book II includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.
Mowgli was once the little man-cub raised by Mother Wolf. Now Mowgli is the Jungle Lord ruling over...
87) Soldier Stories
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Excerpt: "'Mary, Mother av Mercy, fwhat the divil possist us to take an' kape this melancolious counthry? Answer me that, Sorr.' It was Mulvaney who was speaking. The time was one o'clock of a stifling June night, and the place was the main gate of Fort Amara, most desolate and least desirable of all fortresses in India. What I was doing there at that hour is a question which only concerns M'Grath the Sergeant of the Guard, and the men on the gate."...
88) Soldier Stories
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Auszug: "Einmal lebten sehr weit von England drei Männer, die einander so liebten, daß weder Mann noch Weib sie trennen konnte. Sie waren nichts weniger als fein, und nicht geeignet, in die Vorzimmer vornehmer Leute gelassen zu werden, denn sie waren gemeine Soldaten in Ihrer Majestät Armee; und der gemeine Soldat in englischen Diensten hat wenig Zeit für seine Vervollkommnung. Seine Pflicht ist, sich und seine Ausrüstung fleckenlos sauber zu...
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Rudyard Kipling's thrilling science fiction novella follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather. Meanwhile, a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control enforces a rigid system of command and control in the skies and in world affairs, too. In Kipling's 1912 follow-up story, "As Easy As A.B.C.," set 65 years after With the Night Mail, the Aerial Board has complete control over the social and economic affairs of every nation....
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Kipling viaja a Egipto y visita el Sudán entre invierno y primavera de 1913 movido por el deseo de "descubrir el sol", y los juegos de luces y sombras darán las páginas más llamativas de un texto que varias veces proporciona ejemplos modélicos de impresionismo literario y casi se diría que pictórico. Sus descripciones del desierto o de los colosos de Abu Simbel hacen que el texto literario adquiera las propiedades de las más límpidas imágenes...
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A fine collection of classic Mystery and Detective stories. Contents: Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story; The Sending of Dana Da; In the House of Suddhoo; His Wedded Wife. A. Conan Doyle: A Case of Identity; A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red Headed League. Egerton Castle: The Baron's Quarry Stanley J. Weyman: The Fowl in the Pot. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion on the Links. Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman; The First Narrative; The Second Narrative;...
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The poems originally published under the title Barrack-Room Ballads include some of Kipling's most famous efforts, such as "Danny Deever," "Fuzzy-Wuzzy," "Gunga Din," and "Tommy." These martial songs and poems are still sound a deep connection with British imperialism. Also includes Departmental Ditties.
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The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli...
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Raised by a pack of wolves, the little boy known as Mowgli forms the human heart of an animal community in the Indian wilderness. These selections from The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Many Inventions offer a chronological presentation of every episode from Rudyard Kipling's beloved tales of a feral child. This edition of the stories, all except one of which were originally published in magazines in 1893 and 1894, includes the charming...
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Un roman d'aventures passionnant à bord d'un bateau de pêche !
Harvey Cheyne est le fils gâté et arrogant d'un millionnaire américain. Lors de la traversée de l'Atlantique qui le mène vers l'Europe, le jeune garçon tombe à la mer. Un pêcheur le récupère à bord d'un morutier. Harvey est aussitt enrlé pour la saison de pêche qui bat son plein...
À l'origine, ce récit a été publié sous la forme d'un feuilleton dans le Pearsons Magazine,...
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. In this companion to Volume I, published in fall 2013, acclaimed children's book illustrator Ian Wallace once again reinterprets the famous tales with luminous art, bringing Kipling to a new generation of young readers. Many of the tales are origin stories, explaining, for example, how an animal came to be, or the how the alphabet and writing began....
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Here you will find the complete novels and stories of Rudyard Kipling in the chronological order of their original publication.
- Plain Tales from the Hills (a collection of 40 short stories)
- Soldiers Three (a collection of 9 short stories)
- The Story of the Gadsbys (a collection of 8 short stories)
- In Black and White (a collection of 8 short stories)
- Under the Deodars (a collection of 8 short stories)
- The Phantom Rickshaw and other Tales...
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"The City of Dreadful Night" paints a gritty, dark picture of a hot summer night within a walled city in the Orient. The narrator steps over sleeping people which mimic corpses-and vividly depicts what he sees, feels, and hears in this death-like city. Also included in this collection are "The Giridih Coal-Fields" and "Among the Railway Folk," reports from a trip Kipling made to the East India Railway Company's coal fields and headquarters.