Rudyard Kipling

Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.

The jungle book

An illustrated collection of twelve humorous tales, including stories of how the rhinoceros got its skin and the leopard got its spots.

Just So Stories for Little Children

The  man who would be king

The Jungle Books

Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)

The Light That Failed

Philip Pullman

Just So Stories

A story of 2000 AD

With the Night Mail

As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865­–1936) was possessed by an enormous subject—India—and his genius for rendering its beauty and strangeness was even then so fully formed that we have to look to the likes of Shakespeare and Dickens to find writers equally precocious. What is even more astonishing, and what this selection of stories from across his entire career reveals, is the way that his talent grew and developed over time. The work he did toward the end of his long writing life is even better than that which marked its splendid beginnings. The forty stories collected here range across a surprising variety of subjects and techniques. Here are his superb war stories, “Mary Postgate,” “The Gardener,” and “The Drums of the Fore and Aft,” as well as his famous forays into horror in “The Mark of the Beast,” science fiction in “With the Night Mail,” and the ghost story in “The House Surgeon.” “The Man Who Would Be King” is an unforgettable adventure tale, “‘Love-o’-Women’” and “Without Benefit of Clergy” reveal his insight into love and passion, and “Baa Baa, Black Sheep” is a searing revisiting of Kipling’s childhood trauma. From the nightmarish allegory of “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes” and the mystical visions in “The Bridge-Builders” to the brilliant portrait of obsession and sacrifice in his masterpiece, “The Wish House,” these stories showcase Kipling’s remarkable narrative gifts.

Introduction by Robert Gottlieb

Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling

كتاب الأدغال

Jungle Book

Just So Stories (Watermill Classic)

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have beenfellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of usfinding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though Ionce came near to kinship with what might have been a veritable King and was promisedthe reversion of a Kingdom - army, law-courts, revenue and policy all complete. But, today, I greatly fear that my King is dead, and if I want a crown I must go and hunt it formyself.The beginning of everything was in a railway train upon the road to Mhow from Ajmir.There had been a deficit in the Budget, which necessitated travelling, not Second-class, which is only half as dear as First-class, but by Intermediate, which is very awful indeed.There are no cushions in the Intermediate class, and the population are eitherIntermediate, which is Eurasian, or native, which for a long night journey is nasty; orLoafer, which is amusing though intoxicated. Intermediates do not patronize refreshmentrooms. They carry their food in bundles and pots, and buy sweets from the nativesweetmeat-sellers, and drink the roadside water. That is why in the hot weatherIntermediates are taken out of the carriages dead, and in all weathers are most properlylooked down upon.My particular Intermediate happened to be empty till I reached Nasirabad, when a hugegentleman in shirt-sleeves entered, and, following the custom of Intermediates, passed thetime of day. He was a wanderer and a vagabond like myself, but with an educated taste forwhiskey. He told tales of things he had seen and done, of out-of-the-way corners of theEmpire into which he had penetrated, and of adventures in which he risked his life for afew days' food. "If India was filled with men like you and me, not knowing more than thecrows where they'd get their next day's rations, it isn't seventy millions of revenue the landwould be paying - it's seven hundred million," said he; and as I looked at his mouth andchin I was disposed to agree with him. We talked politics - the politics of Loaferdom thatsees things from the underside where the lath and plaster is not smoothed off - and wetalked postal arrangements because my friend wanted to send a telegram back from thenext station to Ajmir, which is the turning-off place from the Bombay to the Mhow line asyou travel westward. My friend had no money beyond eight annas which he wanted fordinner, and I had no money at all, owing to the hitch in the Budget before mentioned.Further, I was going into a wilderness where, though I should resume touch with theTreasury, there were no telegraph offices. I was, therefore, unable to help him in any way

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The Man Who Would Be King

"Fans of Kipling's work will appreciate the new look and newcomers to the classic stories will be taken in by the bold artwork and approachable trim size." — Publishers Weekly How did the rude Rhinoceros get his baggy skin? How did a 'satiably curious Elephant change the lives of his kin evermore? First told aloud to his young daughter ("O my Best Beloved"), Rudyard Kipling's inspired answers to these and other burning questions draw from the fables he heard as a child in India and the folktales he gathered from around the world. In this sumptuous volume, Kipling's playful, inventive tales are brought to life by eight of today's celebrated illustrators, from Peter Sís's elegantly graphic cetacean in "How the Whale Got His Throat" to Satoshi Kitamura's amusingly expressive characters in "The Cat That Walked by Himself." From one of the world's greatest storytellers come eight classic tales just begging to be heard by a new generation — and a visual feast that offers a reward with every retelling. Featuring illustrations by: Christopher Corr Cathie Felstead Jeff Fisher Satoshi Kitamura Claire Melinsky Jane Ray Peter Sís Louise Voce

A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

Il diavolo e l'abisso e altri racconti

Il libro della giungla. Ediz. integrale

S. T. Joshi

Seventeen of the author's best tales, compiled for the first time in one volume, range from comic ghost stories ("Haunted Subalterns") to psychological terror ("The Wandering Jew") and chilling accounts of the returning dead ("The Lost Legion"). Also includes what is widely considered Kipling's finest horror tale, the celebrated title story.

The Mark of the Beast

"An immense gift for using words, an amazing curiosity and power of observation with his mind and with all his senses, the mask of the entertainer, and beyond that a queer gift of second sight, of transmitting messages from elsewhere, a gift so disconcerting when we are made aware of it that thenceforth we are never sure when it is not present: all this makes Kipling a writer impossible wholly to understand and quite impossible to belittle." (T.S Eliot) "He [Kipling] is a stranger to me, but he is a most remarkable man -- and I am the other one. Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest." (Mark Twain). "Kipling is the only English writer of our time who has added phrases to the language." (George Orwell). This anthology of stories and poems by the youngest writer ever to win the Nobel Prize (1907) includes well known masterpieces such as "In the House of Suddhoo", "Beyond the Pale", "The Song of the Dead" and "The Story of Muhammad Din" amongst others. All of them annotated with pertinent information for the modern reader and copiously illustrated with images in full colour that will take you to the fascinating and controversial world of the British Empire as seen by one of its greatest representatives.

Alexandra Fuchs

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