Rudyard Kipling
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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 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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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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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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Inhalt:
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 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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Nobel Literature Prize winner Rudyard Kipling pens this riveting adventure tale. One evening Morrowbie Jukes, an English gentleman, is feeling a bit feverish and the barking of the dogs outside his house is upsetting him. So he mounts his horse in order to pursue them. The horse bolts and they eventually fall into a sandy ravine on the edge of a river. He awakens the next morning to find himself in a village of the living dead, where people who appear...
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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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Le quotidien d'un voyageur journaliste dans un pays qui s'ouvre au monde : le Japon du XIXe siècle.
Rudyard Kipling fait escale au Japon – à la fin du XIXe siècle - entre un long séjour professionnel en Inde et l'Amérique qu'il ne connait pas encore. Cette étape est une découverte surprenante et ses écrits par ces quelque onze lettres racontent avec malice son quotidien de voyageur journaliste dans un pays qui s'ouvre au monde. Voici...
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Much of what we know about the everyday life of the British Raj comes from Rudyard Kipling, one of the keenest observers of nineteenth century India. He is at his best, when writing about the men and women who worked, lived, loved and died together; their indiscretions and foibles; flirtations and passions.
In this collection, we meet some of his most scandalous characters: Pluffles, a young subaltern, who is rescued by beautiful Mrs. Hauksbee, the...
92) Doctors
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Excerpt: "On October 1st, 1908, Mr. Rudyard Kipling was kind enough to distribute the prizes at the opening of the new session of the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital. The address which he then delivered was deemed by those who heard it so admirable, both in form and substance, that there arose a desire to preserve it. The object of this little book is to satisfy that wish. It has been suggested that its publication might be appreciated by...
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The Story of the Gadsbys is a story by Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published as no. 2 of the Indian Railway Library in 1888. The Story of the Gadsbys is written in dramatic form, consisting of eight short scenes (listed below). This short pamphlet, of 100 pages, was later collected in book form as the second part of Soldiers Three. "Poor Dear Mamma", "The World Without", "The Tents of Kedar", "With any Amazement", "The Garden of Eden", "Fatima",...
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The Second Jungle Book is the sequel to Rudyard Kipling's acclaimed collection of stories about the Indian jungle. These new stories were published a year after the original, and mostly focus on the same characters including Mowgli, Baloo, and Bagheera. Similar to his first collection of fables, this sequel also contains a poem at the end of every story, showcasing Rudyard's knowledge of the politics of the time, as well as his passion for the Indian...
95) Soldiers Three
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Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. The current version, dating from 1899 and more fully titled Soldiers Three and other stories, consists of three sections which each had previously received separate publication in 1888; Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris appear only in the...
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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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En la década de 1880, Rudyard Kipling trabajó durante siete años como reportero de las revistas hindúes Civil and Military Gazette y The Pioneer, viviendo anécdotas y experiencias locales que fue convirtiendo posteriormente en relatos. Muchos de ellos los daría a conocer en 1891 en El hándicap de la vida, narraciones escritas para MacMillan's Magazine donde se aprecia claramente la atmósfera misteriosa de la India colonial y un marcado interés...
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This vintage book contains Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel, "Captains Courageous". A fifteen-year-old boy called Harvey Cheyne Jr. is rescued by a Portuguese sailor in the North Atlantic. After refusing to deliver Harvey to the nearest port, the captain of the boat suggests that the boy join the crew on their fishing trip, which turns out to be full of adventures and travails. This book is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed other...
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Excerpt: "The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost to top-heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three...
100) The Years Between
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This 1919 collection of verse, written in the years between the Boer War and World War I, includes one of the author's most famous poems, "The Female of the Species," as well as "'For All We Have and Are,'" "The Choice," "France," "'The City of Brass,'" "The Declaration of London," "Zion," and more.