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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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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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.
85) Songs From Books
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In this 1912 edition (originally published in 1891), the author has collected all the lyrics and verses used in his books, excepting the Jungle Books and Just So Stories. Included are memorable verses such as "Puck's Song" from Puck, as well as songs from Actions and Reactions, Naulakha, Rewards and Fairies, and other works.
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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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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...
88) 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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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...
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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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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 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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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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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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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...
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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.
97) On the Orient
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Travel with Kipling through India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton (now Guangzhou), Japan, and BurmaRudyard Kipling spent many years abroad and his relationship with India is explored in several of his works, both fiction and non-fiction. After leaving school, Kipling was sent to Lahore to work at a local newspaper. He would go on, a few years later, to take up a post at the Pioneer in Allahabad. Kipling said that only a few hours after arriving in...
98) 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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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. Now Ian Wallace, one of Canada's most accomplished children's book illustrators, reinterprets the famous tales with his vibrant art, bringing Kipling to a whole new generation of young readers. Kipling wrote the stories for his young daughter, who would only sleep if they were told "just so." The first edition was published in Great Britain in 1902,...
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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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