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"The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of the most loved short stories of Rudyard Kipling, one of the most important and accomplished English authors of the twentieth century. The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature at age 42 in 1907, Kipling, who was born in India in 1865, captured in his writing the British Empire in all of its glory and contradiction in unparalleled detail and nuance. Contained...
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"Plain Tales From the Hills" is a classic collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Contained here in this volume are the following tales: Lispeth, Three and-an Extra, Thrown Away, Miss Youghal's Sais, 'Yoked with an Unbeliever', False Dawn, The Rescue of Pluffles, Cupid's Arrows, The Three Musketeers, His Chance in Life, Watches of the Night, The Other Man, Consequences, The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin, The Taking of Lungtungpen, A Germ-Destroyer,...
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A 19th-century English family discovers a young mongoose half drowned from a flood. They revive it and decide to keep it as a pet. The young mongoose, named Rikki Tikki Tavi, finds himself confronted by two dangerous king cobras, Nag and his even more dangerous wife Nagin, who had the run of the garden while the house was unoccupied. The exciting adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the little mongoose, will be a wonderful teacher of true love, devoted...
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From the author of The Jungle Book comes a magical fantasy story, rich in historical detail and filled with intrigue and excitementUna and Dan, reciting Shakespeare on a summer's evening in rural Sussex, unwittingly summon the elf Puck. They are taken on a fantastic journey through Britain's past, their magical companion plucking from history an array of fascinating characters for them to meet: Parnesius, a Roman centurion who manned Hadrian's wall;...
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The Jungle Books, by Rudyard Kipling, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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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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Published in 1909, this collection of short stories and poetry features some of Kipling's most imaginative tales, including "An Habitation Enforced," the proto-steampunk "With the Night Mail," and "The Puzzler." As the New York Times reviewer wrote of this collection, "the mastery and wizardry . . . have not . . . failed or faded."
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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."
10) Just so stories
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From the author of The Jungle Book and Kim, Just So Stories is the perfect combination of education and fun to get kids to love reading. It is considered not only a quintessential children's book, but one of Kipling's best works.
How did the elephant get its trunk? How did the leopard get its spots? And how was the alphabet made? Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal and humankind in a fun, eloquent...
11) Indian Tales
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Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of short stories told by the indigenous as well as the tourist invaders. Kipling's vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. The language is rough and rude, but reflects the world that it was. The stories, characters, situations, portrayals, dialogues are fresh, rich and funny, even though they were written...
12) 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...
13) Tales from India
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Tales from India presents the very best of Kipling's short stories. His vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, these tales with their brevity and concentration of effect are landmarks in the history of the short story as an art-form. Politics, the Raj, and the life of the common soldier are some of the familiar themes...
14) 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 Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition" is an extensive collection that showcases the early works of the celebrated British author, Rudyard Kipling. Best known for iconic creations like "The Jungle Book," "Kim," and the "Just So Stories," Kipling's broader oeuvre, often overshadowed, is rich with detailed depictions of colonial India and acute observations of the British Empire's complex social and political fabric.
This anthology...
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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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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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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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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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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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