Kipling: 886 books

Edition Complète de " Le Second Livre De La Jungle - Rudyard Kipling - Annoté (enrichi d'une biographie complète) ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée. Dans ce deuxième volume du "livre de la jungle" l'unité de...

Décidément Nick Tarvin ne comprend rien à cette jeune fille ! Enfant, elle allait puiser avec lui l’eau de la rivière lors de la construction du chemin de fer. Et voici que l’infirmière Kate Shérif qui revient de ses études le regarde à peine. Jeune notable de la petite ville de Topaze...

The Kipling stories were among the very first adventure books. So much detail of a time and place that no longer exists. Classic reading to share with children. Contents Biographical sketch -- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep -- Wee Willie Winkie -- The dove of Dacca -- The smoke upon your altar...

A collection of 100+ Rudyard Kipling’s novels, poems and short stories in 15 books. It contains: The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Kim, The Story Of The Gadsby, Plain Tales From The Hills, The Phantom 'Rickshaw And Other Ghost Stories, The Light That Failed, Many Inventions, "Captains...

The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are highly fantasized origin stories and are among Kipling's best known works.The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner...

Ten of the best Kipling stories, specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Adam Roberts, who also provides a critical analysis of the form and style of Kipling's work. This edition is part of the new Comma Classics series, launched to celebrate past masters of the short story with...

Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling   was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Не was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children, and he also...

Debits and Credits is a collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling, a British writer who wrote extensively about British colonialism in India and Burma. In 1907, he became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The collection...

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) brought Rudyard Kipling instant success and established him as a “friend of the soldier.” At the time, British men generally enlisted to escape dire poverty, and the common soldier was held in low regard by the Victorian public—until he was needed to fight. Kipling...

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.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man...

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent figure at times violently opposed to the dominant political and literary tendencies of his age. Arranged in chronological order, this diverse selection...

Il libro della giungla (The Jungle Book) è una raccolta di racconti dello scrittore Premio Nobel per la Letteratura Rudyard Kipling; pubblicati, mentre viveva nel Vermont, su vari giornali e riviste tra il 1893 e il 1894. Questa pubblicazione contiene 89 illustrazioni di Maurice de Becque e altri...