Kipling: 886 books
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. The current version, dating from 1899 and more fully titled Soldiers Three and other...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence, and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that made a mockery of American democracy, and while exhibiting the racist attitudes...
Captains Courageous
A Story of the Grand Banks
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
A pampered millionaire's son tumbles overboard from a luxury liner and falls into good fortune, disguised in the form of a fishing boat. The gruff and hearty crew teach the young man to be worth his salt as they fish the waters off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Brimming with adventure and humor.
Joseph...
Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection - 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India)
In the Pride of His Youth, Tods' Amendment, The Other Man, Lispeth, Kidnapped, Cupid's Arrows, A Bank Fraud, Consequences, Thrown Away, Watches of the Night, The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows…
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: “Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection - 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short...
Life's Handicap
Being Stories of Mine Own People
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Subtitled 'Being Stories of Mine Own People', Kipling wrote that these tales are 'from all places and all sorts of people'.
Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include...
The Elephant in the Temple
Tales of Beast and Man in India
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
From military camels and hunting cheetahs, to herding dogs and talking mynahs, animals have been living, working, playing and performing with humans in India for centuries. In this intimate book, John Lockwood Kipling writes about animals in daily Indian life, bringing alive the sights, sounds and...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Classic Kipling short stories, including IN AMBUSH, SLAVES OF THE LAMP--PART I., AN UNSAVORY INTERLUDE, THE IMPRESSIONISTS, THE MORAL REFORMERS, A LITTLE PREP, THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY, THE LAST TERM, and SLAVES OF THE LAMP --PART II. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936) was...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
For a month Kipling, referring to himself as “The Englishman,” journeys unfettered through Rajputana, India, chronicling his adventures as a wayfarer through a world where British imperialism and Indian culture come together, sometimes mingling, sometimes not. The Anglo-Indian’s love for and...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, British India, (now in Pakistan) between November...
The Best Short Stories
Chosen in 1914 by the most prominent authors of the day, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Have you read the 50 best short stories of all time?
In 1914, a critical moment in literature, The New York Times asked the most highly regarded authors of the day to name the best short story in the English language. Many of their responses have maintained consistent fame through time....
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Rudyard Kipling: was he a vampire of the Raj or an Indian born in another skin, who upheld the British empire but gave his heart to the East? Khushwant Singh, celebrated columnist, author and ardent Kipling fan, knits this anthology with a fascinating introduction on the life of this controversial writer.
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Includes the following works: The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Kim, Plain Tales from the Hills, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous, Barrack Room Ballads, and The Man Who Would be King. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most well known writers of the 20th century, chiefly remembered...