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Rudyard Kipling
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 2 583 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1890–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Classics: Level 15: Pack of 6. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
2 583 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1890–2026.
The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. (Puck, who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England", is better known as a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.) The genres of particular stories range from authentic historical novella (A Centurion of the
El hombre que quiso ser rey
Rudyard Kipling
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2017
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El hombre que quiso ser rey, narraci n que dio origen a una espl ndida pel cula de John Huston, cuenta las peripecias de dos aventureros ingleses para hacerse con el reino de Kafirist n. Utilizando sus conocimientos occidentales para fascinar a los nativos y hacerse pasar por dioses, los dos personajes sentir n el desgarro de la lucha entre su presunto origen divino y sus necesidades humanas, hasta verse abocados a un desastre. Al final del camino pone en escena cuatro ingleses aislados del mundo en la vastedad de la India, y enfrentados a la miseria, el terror y la perdici n.
Aunque el autor ha adquirido fama mundial con sus libros infantiles: El libro de la jungla, Kim y Capitanes intr pidos, la extraordinaria calidad de las narraciones de Rudyard Kipling lo han convertido en uno de los pilares del cuento moderno. "La litera fant stica", que da t tulo a la presente antolog a, narra la historia de un hombre perseguido por el fantasma de una mujer desde ada, elegantemente conducida en una litera que cargan cuatro espantos, tan fabulosos como su ama. Kipling recibi el premio Nobel en 1907.
The title refers, by way of a pun on "Plain" as the reverse of "Hills", to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla-the "summer capital of the British Raj" during the hot weather. Not all of the stories are, in fact, about life in "the Hills" Kipling gives sketches of many aspects of life in British India. The tales include the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hauksbee, the policeman Strickland, and the Soldiers Three (Privates Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd).
From "The Captive" The guard-boat lay across the mouth of the bathing-pool, her crew idly spanking the water with the flat of their oars. A red-coated militia-man, rifle in hand, sat at the bows, and a petty officer at the stern. Between the snow-white cutter and the flat-topped, honey-colored rocks on the beach the green water was troubled with shrimp-pink prisoners-of-war bathing. Behind their orderly tin camp and the electric-light poles rose those stone-dotted spurs that throw heat on Simonstown.
Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
Rudyard Kipling
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2017
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Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition. In 1900, in his essay "What We Can Expect of the American Boy," Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book and praised Kipling for describing "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do." The book's title comes from the ballad Mary Ambree, which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers, published in The Times of 23 November 1892.
Cuentos de la India: Del ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura
Rudyard Kipling
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Lo fant stico, en la literatura de Rudyard Kipling, nace del contraste entre dos mundos: las culturas de la India, con toda la riqueza de sus tradiciones religiosas y filos ficas y de su modo de vida, y la moral del ingl s, convencido de estar construyendo en la India una nueva civilizaci n y que siente la responsabilidad de tal deber y la angustia por la incomprensi n de los hind es y de muchos compatriotas. Ambos mundos son objeto en Kipling de un profundo conocimiento y de una profunda pasi n.
"A little boy escapes a man-eating tiger, and is adopted by a family of wolves. The animals teach Mowgli to live in the jungle, but Shere Khan the tiger is his enemy for life. Eventually Mowgli must confront Shere Khan, and find where he truly belongs. With fun activities after the story, and online audio in British and American English."
