Kipling: 886 books

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most well known writers of the 20th century, chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Born in Bombay, he was taken by his family to England when he was five years...

Stalky & Co. is a book published in 1899 by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories in format, with some information about the charismatic Stalky character in later life. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly based...

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems ofBritish soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, in the...

"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses...

Here is the thrilling story of Rikki, a fearless young mongoose who finds himself locked in a life-and-death struggle to protect a boy and his parents from Nag and Nagaina, the two enormous cobras who stalk the gardens outside the familys home in India. Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kiplings timeless masterpiece has been lovingly passed from one generation of readers to the next.

'Of a sudden I realized that he was in the grip of some almost overpowering fear.' Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novels and poetry, but his short stories reveal a far more sinister and macabre side to his imagination. In these three chilling and psychologically penetrating tales, Kipling...

Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells...

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short stories, the tales about India and more noticeably about the British in India. The title...

The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India, who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the "white Raja" of Sarawak in Borneo,...

El hombre que pudo reinar (1888) trata de dos aventureros británicos en la India que se convierten en reyes de Kafiristán, una parte remota de Afganistán. La historia está inspirada en las hazañas de James Brooke, un inglés que se convirtió en el primer rajá de Sarawak en Borneo y en los viajes...

*** Français (per l'italiano scorri verso il basso) *** Édition bilingue Français-Italien avec le texte parallèle "Le Petit Prince" par Rudyard Kipling. Avec 89 dessins par Maurice de Becque et d'autres. Traduit par Louis Fabulet, Robert d’Humières et Gian Dauli. ***...

Le développement de la ville américaine de Topaze (Colorado) - et l'avancement de son sénateur - dépend du bon vouloir d'une compagnie de chemin de fer. Le rail conduira-t-il le progrès jusqu'à Topaze ? Une dame bien placée garantit ce miracle économique si on lui rapporte des Indes le "Naulahka...

Das Dschungelbuch & Das Neue Dschungelbuch (Illustriert) Rudyard Kiplings »Das Dschungelbuch« (1894) und als Fortsetzung »Das Neue Dschungelbuch« (1895), gehören zu den berühmtesten Werken der Jugendliteratur. – Die beiden Bände enthalten die vollständigen Geschichten rund um Mogli, Bagheera,...