Rudyard Kipling

"Kimball O’Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama, and he decides to accompany him on his travels across the Indian Subcontinent. After falling into the hands of his father’s old regiment, however, Kim is separated from the lama and sent away to school. There, his natural flair for espionage is spotted, and he soon finds himself among the majestic peaks of the Himalayas, playing a crucial part in the secret service’s confrontation withRussia known as the “Great Game”. With its peerless evocation of the teeming cities, breathtaking landscapes and diverse cultures of late-nineteenth-century India, Kim is widely considered to be Kipling’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels written in the English language."

Rudyard Kiplings Dschungelbuch-Geschichten erschienen zum ersten Mal im Jahre1894. Seither sind Generationen von Lesern fasziniert von den Abenteuern des kleinen Findelkindes Mowgli, der langen Reise der stolzen wei en Robbe Kotick.oder auch von dem Mut des Mungos Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Written by classic English author Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories is considered not only a quintessential children's book, but one of Kipling's best works. Just So Stories is a collection of origin stories, fictional tales that explain why animals have certain characteristics and other themes akin to that. Kipling's book features stories such as "How the Whale Got His Throat," or why large whales eat small prey, and "How the Alphabet Was Made," which details a young girl and her father inventing an alphabet. Beautifully written and packed-full of illustrations, Just So Stories is the perfect combination of education and fun to get kids to love reading. This edition (ISBN: 9781645940166) is carefully reconstructed from the original edition, which was published in 1902 and was illustrated by Rudyard Kipling, himself. Even the cover of this edition reflects the first edition of "Just So Stories." Some very minor updates were required due to modern printing methods, but in the main, this is the closest the reader can get to the original edition just as Kipling wrote it, without having an actual first edition book in one's hand. This attractive hard cover edition is a perfect gift and will be coveted by libraries. Anyone trying to capture the magic and innocence of childhood will be charmed by this close reproduction of a century's old classic.

Just So Stories by Rudyard KiplingHelp your child share your most wonderful childhood memories and emotions with the Illustrated Children's Classics Collection series, which offers amazingly illustrated children's favorites - the short stories for kids by Rudyard Kipling. Get cozily on the sofa, and together with your child enter the magic world of childhood - the world of exciting characters and thrilling adventures, the world of hot African deserts and savannahs, and the world of mysterious jungles of India. Get your kid engaged, entertained, and at the same time - taught valuable life lessons. Relish the splendor of the vivid and colorful pictures by a famous children's artist, which will trigger the child's imagination and let them live through the book adventures together with their favorite characters. Also in the series: Rikki Tikki Tavi: The Jungle Book StoriesHow the Leopard Got His Spots. The Beginning of the Armadillos. The Elephant's Child. How the Camel Got His Hump. Make a great contribution to your child's library and a good investment in their development

Just So Stories by Rudyard KiplingHelp your child share your most wonderful childhood memories and emotions with the Illustrated Children's Classics Collection series, which offers amazingly illustrated children's favorites - the short stories for kids by Rudyard Kipling. Get cozily on the sofa, and together with your child enter the magic world of childhood - the world of exciting characters and thrilling adventures, the world of hot African deserts and savannahs, and the world of mysterious jungles of India. Get your kid engaged, entertained, and at the same time - taught valuable life lessons. Relish the splendor of the vivid and colorful pictures by a famous children's artist, which will trigger the child's imagination and let them live through the book adventures together with their favorite characters. Also in the series: Rikki Tikki Tavi: The Jungle Book StoriesThe Cat that Walked by Himself. How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. How the Leopard Got His Spots. The Beginning of the Armadillos. Make a great contribution to your child's library and a good investment in their development

The Jungle Book, written by Rudyard Kipling, tells the story of Mowgli, a child who ends up living with wolves and learning the ways of nature, trying to survive against enemy animals and making great friendships along the way. The story has been adapted into several movies, tales, and it has been a classic novel for decades. This is the official edition without changes, external footnotes, or any interruption to the original text.

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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.

"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 here in this volume are some of his most enduring and fascinating short stories, such as the titular "The Man Who Would be King", a story of two young British adventurers who believe they can talk and intimidate their way into being kings of a small country near Afghanistan. It is a fascinating and brutal tale of greed, imperialism, arrogance, and desperation. Also included is the haunting ghost story "The Phantom 'Rickshaw", where a young man is driven mad by the ghost of the young lady he once spurned, and the dark and heartbreaking "Baa Baa, Black Sheep", a story of an unwanted young ward who is driven to desperate acts by his cruel and heartless aunt. Together this collection includes seventeen of Kipling's best short stories. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

First published serially between 1893 and 1894, "The Jungle Book" is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of jungle tales in which we first meet Mowgli, a child lost in the jungles of India and raised by a pack of wolves. To survive in the jungle Mowgli most learn from the animals to abide by the laws of the jungle. A cast of interesting creatures surround Mowgli, including Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, who help the young man to survive, and the tiger Shere Khan, who is envious of Mowgli and wishes his demise. Also contained in "The Jungle Book" are the stories of Kotick, a white seal in search of a new home for his tribe were they will not be hunted, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a mongoose who defends an Indian family against a pair of cobras, along with several other tales of the jungle. One of the most popular collections of short stories for children ever written, "The Jungle Book" was inspired by Kipling's own experiences as a youth in India, where he would spend many of his formative years. Because of the popularity of "The Jungle Book" Kipling wrote a sequel, "The Second Jungle Book", in which five more tales of Mowgli and three other jungle tales are related. Interspersed with beautiful poetry relating to the stories, Kipling's "Jungle Books" are collected together here in this volume. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Rudyard Kipling: A great Victorian, a great writer of Empire, a great man. Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of prose and poetry in the late 19th and 20th Century and awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1907. Born in Bombay on 30th December 1865, as was the custom in those days, he and his sister were sent back to England when he was 5. The ill-treatment and cruelty by the couple who they boarded with in Portsmouth, Kipling himself suggested, contributed to the onset of his literary life. This was further enhanced by his return to India at age 16 to work on a local paper, as not only did this result in him writing constantly but also made him explore issues of identity and national allegiance which pervade much of his work. Whilst he is best remembered for his classic children's stories and his popular poem 'If...' he is also regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story.

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." Notable for its detailed portrait of Indian people, culture, and its varied religions, Kim is Kipling's best serious long novel. One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore: Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest. From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. -- Alix Wilber