Rudyard Kipling
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This edition of Kipling's "The Song of the English" was originally published in November 1909. It included the six subsidiary poems: The Coastwise Lights, The Song of the Dead, The Deep-Sea Cables, The Song of the Sons, The Song of the Cities, and England's Answer. The theme underlying much of this collection, is that the English are the Chosen under the Lord, so long as they obey the Law. This is one of Kipling's earliest verses specifically setting...
123) Strange Tales
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Some six or seven feet above the port bulwarks, framed in fog, and as utterly unsupported as the full moon, hung a Face. It was not human, and it certainly was not animal, for it did not belong to this earth as known to man'Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader...
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Kipling's poem 'The Dead King' was written as a eulogy to King Edward Vii as a wise devoted monarch who had served his people well. King Edward Vii died on May 6th, 1910 and this poem was first printed in The Times, the Morning Post, and other English newspapers on 18 May 1910. Here the poem is decorated with the wonderful illustrations of W. Heath Robinson, an English cartoonist and illustrator. He was best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated...
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This book contains Rudyard Kipling's 1902 collection of short stories, 'Just So Stories'. These fantastically imaginative origin stories are amongst the best known of Kipling's works, and offer entertaining explanations as to how various animals came into being. This wonderful collection would make for ideal bedtime reading, and is well deserving of a place on every family bookshelf. Contents include: 'How the Whale got His Throat', 'How the Camel...
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Première traduction originale de Louis Fabulet et Robert d'Humières.
La version originale en français, intégrale, avec les illustrations somptueuses de Maurice de Becque (1878-1928), enfin rééditée!
Loin des clichés réducteurs d'un texte souvent dénaturé, elle met en valeur les vertus initiatiques de la parole de Kipling, prix Nobel de littérature 1907, que tous les enfants petits et grands apprécieront pour ses splendeurs et sa puissance...
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This book contain Rudyard Kipling's 1907 short story, 'The Brushwood Boy'. First published as part of 'The Day's Work' (1898), it is the curious story of a boy's adventures both in real life and within his dreams. 'The Brushwood Boy' is a timeless tale that makes for ideal bedtime reading, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Kipling's marvellous work. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a seminal English writer of short stories, novelist,...
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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
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Novels:
The Light That Failed
Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
Kim
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
Stalky and Co.
Short Story Collections:
The City of Dreadful Night
Plain Tales from the Hills
Soldier's Three (The Story of the Gadsbys)
Soldier's Three - Part II
The Phantom...
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"The Haunted Hour: An Anthology" by Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Noyes, John Masefield, Arthur Guiterman, Margaret Widdemer, Joyce Kilmer, Louis Untermeyer, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Nathan Haskell Dole, Helen Gray Cone, William Butler Yeats, Francis Carlin, Henry W. Longfellow, Theodosia Garrison, Anna Hempstead Branch. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction...
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"Stories by English Authors: The Orient" by Rudyard Kipling, Mary Russell Mitford, Morley Roberts, Netta Syrett, Mary Beaumont, Sir Robert K. Douglas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously...
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The Boys' Adventure Megapack collects 20 great adventure stories for boys, from classics like "The Call of the Wild" to war stories like the adventures of Dave Dawson, from science fiction like Tom Swift, Jr. to historical fiction like Tarzan of the Apes and The Count of Monte Cristo. Rollicking adventure stories for the young and young at heart!
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THE CALL OF THE WILD, by Jack London
TREASURE ISLAND, by Robert Louis Stevenson
KIDNAPPED,...
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Es la historia del comienzo de la vida doméstica: el hombre conoce a la mujer y ocupan una cueva creando el primer hogar. El perro, el caballo y la vaca que hasta entonces eran salvajes, a través de un pacto no escrito con el hombre, se convierten en domesticados, pero el gato se niega, diciendo "Yo no soy un amigo y tampoco un criado. Yo soy el gato que camina solo"
135) Das Dschungelbuch
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Die drei Erzählungen des Dschungelbuchs schildern die Geschichte von Mowgli. Der kleine indische Junge ist durch den Überfall des lahmen Tigers Schir Khan von seinen Eltern getrennt worden und stößt im Dschungel zufällig auf eine Wolfsfamilie, die ihn - unter Leitung der Wölfin Rakscha - aufzieht ...
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The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seeonee" (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
A major theme in the book is abandonment followed...
137) Genau-so-Geschichten
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Es gab eine Zeit, am Anfang aller Jahre, da sahen die Tiere ganz anders aus als heute: Der Leopard hatte noch keine Flecken, das Kamel keine Höcker und das Rhinozeros keine Falten. Wer weiß denn, wie der Wal zu seinem Schlund gekommen ist? Und wie war noch die Geschichte von dem neugierigen Elefantenkind?
"Dschungelbuch"-Autor Rudyard Kipling hat diese Geschichten, die er selbst von seinem indischen Kindermädchen hörte, für seinen allerliebsten...
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"The Man Who Would Be King" is an enormously popular story by the legendary British writer, poet and journalist Rudyard Kipling. In the tale, the narrator - a British newspaperman in India modeled after Kipling himself - meets two ex-military rogues named Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan who have grand ambitions. They plan to load up on weapons, travel to the remote Afghan kingdom of Kafiristan and - through cunning and military force - become monarchs....
139) Tiger ! Tiger !
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Mowgli is the boy who was raised by wolves. As a very young child, little Mowgli had toddled into the jungle and away from the sight of his distraught mother. Tracked by the lame tiger, Sere Kahn as a tasty morsel to eat, he had been taken in by a wolf family in their lair and protected from the tiger. But the tiger, frustrated from having an easy meal, had vowed he would eat him one day and he plotted for years as the child grew to boyhood. This...
140) Mowgli's Brothers
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An exciting story of a toddler being raised by wolves in the jungles of India. A pair of wolves raising a family of cubs, are furious to learn from Tabaqui the jackal that Shere Khan the lame tiger is hunting in their territory because he might kill men and bring human retribution upon the jungle. But when Father Wolf hears something approaching their den, it turns out to be not the tiger, but a naked human baby. Mother Wolf decides to adopt the hairless...