Rudyard Kipling
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Mowgli is found abandoned in the jungle by Father Wolf who takes him to his pack. The baby boy becomes a part of the wolf pack; he grows up and learns to live like any other animal in the jungle, playing with his wolf brothers and sisters and his friends Bagheera and Baloo. But Shere Khan the tiger cannot bear the thought of a human living in the jungle among them and is determined to get the better of Mowgli. Will the ‘man-cub’ accept defeat and go ...
A cursed Sahib finds ghostly cats about his path and around his bed. Two young soldiers are plagued by a banjo-playing spirit. An elderly lady shoos away importunate children, but when they turn away from her, she falls to her knees and prays for mercy. And an otherwise gentle horse causes accidents everywhere she goes—accompanied by the hoofbeats of another invisible steed.
These and sixteen other tales, replete with ghostly children, haunted ships, ...
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard’s father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years. These stories were written when ...
In these stories, first published over a hundred years ago, Kipling sets the stage for encounters between the East and the West—between India and Anglo-India. The tales are remarkable not just for the range of Indian places and situations they describe or their wealth of historical detail but also for their sensitive and by and large fair representations of both British and Indian characters, Kipling takes on the thorny issues of empire, race, miscegenation and ...
The fables in Just So Stories were first narrated by Kipling to an audience of his own children. In theme and subject matter, they range from animals and insects to the origins of the alphabet. How the Leopard got his Spots, How the Rhinoceros got his Skin and How the Camel got his Hump are some of the most famous tales of this collection, which has endeared itself to generations of young readers.
Rajasthan Stories is culled from Kipling’s travelogue, Letters from Marque (1891). In these colourful accounts of the people, places and things of Rajasthan, Kipling plays a veteran tourist guide with an engrossing tale to tell about everyone and everything. He introduces us to the unique attractions of many cities that are en route like ‘Jeypore (Jaipur), Amber, Jodhpur, Boondi, Udaipur, Chitor, ‘Ajmir’ (Ajmer), etc. These write-ups are hugely ...
This varied and entertaining selection offers ample opportunity to acquire a taste for Kipling's stories. Politics, the Raj, and the life of the common soldier are some of the familiar themes associated with Kipling, but these stories also reflect the more unexpected aspects of Kipling's character and the different influences of the contrasting countries-India, America and England-in which he lived. His sympathetic portrayal of women, his interest in supernatural ...
A commendable poet and also a notable novelist, Rudyard Kipling stands out superbly as a writer of short stories. It was definitely in the short stories that he exercised his talents to the fullest. He has given some short stories that transcend time and place. Diverse experiences in life and his visits to different places account for the diversity of theme, plot and character in his stories for adults. The present selection includes some remarkable short stories ...
Here in this omnibus edition is a collection of the best among Rudyard Kipling's humorous tales for children. They bear proof of Kipling's mastery over prose and lead the little readers to a realm of laughter and amusement, with a dig at this world of pomp and strife. This edition includes The Legend of Mirth, The Taking of Lungtungpen, Moti Guj-Mutineer, My Sunday at Home, Pig, Alnaschar and the Oxen, the Bull that thought, the finances of the gods, the ...
A collection of fascinating tales interspersed with verses illustrating author's feeling for the immutability of the English landscape. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay. He was shot story writer, poet novelist and children's writer. This work contrasts sharply with his thumpingly rhythmical military ballads and patriotic songs.
This novel is an outstanding and thrilling adventure story , is rated as a modern classic and recognized as Kipling's masterpiece. Kim, a young Irish orphan, is brought up in the native quarter of Lahore. While he is accompanying a Tibetan lama on his search for the River of Immortality, Kim is picked up by the British and groomed for the Secret Service. His first assignment is to capture the papers of a Russian spy in the Himalayas. The atmosphere of India, ...
This selection serves up the very best of Kipling's stories on the politics of the Raj, besides offering a sampling of the entire range of his preoccupations, covering all the familiar themes associated with his writing, such as his interest in religious experiences and the supernatural, the healing powers of art, and his progressive portrayal of women.
Described as the greatest democratic English poet, Kipling versified emotions which the average man instantly recognizes with the energy and vividness of a man of genius. This edition of the complete verse bears weighty testimony of that acclaim.Rudyard Kipling is today one of the two or three most-quoted authors in the English language and despite the negative attitude of many critics, he has continued to be a best-selling author for more than a hundred years ...