Rudyard Kipling
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Excerpt: "The history of the Victoria Cross has been told so often that it is only necessary to say that the Order was created by Queen Victoria on January 29th, 1856, in the year of the peace with Russia, when the new racing Cunard paddle-steamer Persia of three thousand tons was making thirteen knots an hour between England and America, and all the world wondered at the advance of civilization and progress Any officer of the English Army, Navy,...
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This Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling is a truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Kipling's works. It contains his all novels, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. For easier navigation, there are tables of contents for each section and one for the whole volume.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward...
63) Viaje al Japón
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El texto de Kipling sobre el Japón, una joya de la escritura turística, de una amenidad extraordinaria, mantiene una actualidad pasmosa gracias a la casualidad que hizo de Kipling uno de los poquísimos grandes escritores occidentales que pudieron contemplar y describir el Japón moderno en los momentos mismos de su gestación, en pleno período revolucionario Meiji. Con un ritmo magistralmente medido para cautivar al lector, mediante una combinación...
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A Fleet in Being is Rudyard Kipling's account of the time he spent with what was called the Channel Squadron. His interest in every detail of the fleet, its operations, and the seamen devoted to their profession comes alive here and presents a valuable portrait of the Royal Navy at an interesting time in its development.
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Rudyard Kipling's classic jungle tales, in an acclaimed stage adaptation by Stuart Paterson, 'a master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).
'This exhilarating production ticks all the boxes for families looking for an uplifting treat' - Time Out
'A top-class production, a tropical cocktail of intense and comical moments, shaken and stirred with heart-stopping dangers and surprises' - Daily Telegraph
'Up against Disney, you have your work cut out to...
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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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"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.
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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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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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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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How the Camel Got His Hump” - is a fascinating fairy-tale by the incomparable English writer Rudyard Kipling about the way one lazy and sniffy camel refused to help the other animals. He was punished for that: a magic gin awarded him with a huge hump for the wild beast to be able to work continuously.
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Das Dschungelbuch:
Moglis Brüder
Jagdgesang des Sioni-Rudels
Kaas Jagdtanz
Wanderlied des Affenvolkes
"Tiger-Tiger!"
Moglis Siegeslied
Die weiße Robbe
Lukannon
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Darsies Siegesgesang
Toomai, der Liebling der Elefanten
Schiwa und die Heuschrecke
Das neue Dschungelbuch:
Wie Angst kam
Das Gesetz der Dschungel
Das Wunder des Purun Baghat
Ein Sang des Kabir
Die Dschungel los!
Moglis Gesang wider die Menschen
Die Leichenbestatter
Lied...
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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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Das neue Dschungelbuch Rudyard Kipling-"Das Dschungelbuch", englischer Originaltitel "The Jungle Book", ist eine Sammlung von Erzählungen und Gedichten des britischen Autors Rudyard Kipling. Der erste Band erschien 1894, der zweite 1895 unter dem Titel "The Second Jungle Book" ("Das zweite Dschungelbuch"); seither werden die Erzählungen der beiden Bände zumeist gemeinsam publiziert, oft als "The Jungle Books" ("Die Dschungelbücher").
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77) The Five Nations
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Rudyard Kipling became deeply involved in the 1899-1902 war between Britain and the Boer republics, during which period a number of the poems in this collection were composed. The poems bear witness not only to the political turmoil of the period, but also to the state of the poet's own inner world at the time.
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Lispeth
Drei Walzer-und eine Extratour
Vergeudet
Miss Youghals "Sais"
Im Joch
Zwielicht
Pluffles' Befreiung
Amors Pfeile
Die drei Musketiere
Der Wendepunkt
Uhren
Der Andere
Folgen
Die Bekehrung Aurelian Mc. Goggins
Die Einnahme von Lungtungpen
Der Bazillentöter
Entführt
Die Verhaftung des Leutnants Golightly
Im Hause Suddhoos
Seine Ehefrau
Der Rekordbrecher
Jenseits
Irrungen
Ein Bankbetrug
Toddy's Antrag
Die Tochter des Regiments
In der...
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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...