Rudyard Kipling
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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.
82) 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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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...
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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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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,...
86) Mowgli
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'Mowgli’ is a legendary collection of stories by the world-famous English writer and poet Joseph Rudyard Kipling (Eng. Joseph Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936). This is an unbelievable story of the human child, who was, found in jungles and reared, up by the wolves. The baby grows in the pack and learns to survive in the conditions of the wild nature, and his devoted friends help him in doing that, they are, the bear Baloo, the panther Bagheera and the...
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Estas fábulas fueron escritas por Rudyard Kipling para ser contadas a su pequeña hija Josephine en su lecho de enferma. La niña murió a los siete años. En la introducción original del libro su autor ordenó narrarlas siempre "exactamente así, para que ella no despierte". Al traducir esta obra estamos desobedeciendo su mandato. Quizás el íntimo y oculto deseo de Kipling haya sido que desconsideremos su consigna y que logremos despertar a su...
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. Now Ian Wallace, one of Canada's most accomplished children's book illustrators, reinterprets the famous tales with his vibrant art, bringing Kipling to a whole new generation of young readers. Kipling wrote the stories for his young daughter, who would only sleep if they were told "just so." The first edition was published in Great Britain in 1902,...
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The title story of this collection, published in 1899, features three of Kipling's recurring characters, privates Mulvaney, Ortheris, and Learoyd, who together constitute a kind of modern-day Three Musketeers. The collection also contains "The Story of the Gadsbys," and "In Black and White."
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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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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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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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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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Published in 1915, this collection of short articles constitutes a bracing early history of the New Army, also known as Kitchener's Army-or, more disparagingly, Kitchener's Mob-the revolutionary all-volunteer army fielded by Britain after the outbreak of World War I.
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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;...