Rudyard: 846 books

In addition to his works of fiction, Kipling was a knowledgeable military historian.  This 1916 publication combines both interests—with poems, lyrical essays, and factual reports.  Highlights include "Destroyers at Jutland," an account of the great World War I naval battle, and "Tales of the Trade," a harrowing account of submarine warfare.

From man’s best friend to wild beasts, five of the most enduring tales of animals in literature—together in one collection for animal lovers of all ages. Animals as characters have played a significant part in literature, from Aesop’s ancient fables and the Garden of Eden story to contemporary...

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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works in chronological order: Gulliver’s Travels is Jonathan Swift’s comic tale of an Englishman...

BnF collection ebooks - "Elle était la fille de Sonoo, un homme des collines de l'Himalaya et de sa femme Jadéh. Une année, leur maïs ne rendit pas et deux ours passèrent la nuit dans leur unique champ de pavots, qui était juste au-dessus de la vallée du Sudledge, sur la rive de Kotgarh....

Ces histoires ont été recueillies en tous lieux, et je les tiens de toutes sortes de gens, des prêtres de la Chubara, d’Ala Yar le graveur et de Jiwun Singh le charpentier, de gens sans nom à bord des bateaux et des trains autour du monde, de femmes filant devant leurs demeures au crépuscule,...

BnF collection ebooks - "Touchant la véracité de ce récit, il ne saurait y avoir aucun doute, car il me fut conté par Mulvaney, derrière les lignes des éléphants, par un soir brûlant où nous emmenions promener les chiens pour leur donner de l'exercice. Les douze éléphants du gouvernement...

A classic series of children tales, stories, poems , rhymes and many more collected from the different parts of the world. I bet this book series will not disappoint you. You can give this book to your kids and make them engage in their own world and make them learn english by themselves.

Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining He answered his name at the muster and stood to the chaining. When the twin anklets were nipped on the leg-bars that held them, He brotherly greeted the armourers stooping to weld them. Ere the sad dust of the marshalled feet of the chain-gang swallowed him, Observing him nobly at ease, I alighted and followed him. 

The Navy is very old and very wise. Much of her wisdom is on record and available for reference; but more of it works in the unconscious blood of those who serve her. She has a thousand years of experience, and can find precedent or parallel for any situation that the force of the weather or the malice...

Once upon a time, Dan and Una, brother and sister, living in the English country, had the good fortune to meet with Puck, alias Robin Goodfellow, alias Nick o' Lincoln, alias Lob-lie-by-the- Fire, the last survivor in England of those whom mortals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is 'The...

Tendo como cenário a Índia Central, a história de Mogli, o menino criado por uma alcateia de lobos, é cheia de ação, aventura e amizade. Ao longo de sua jornada, para provar que merece ser respeitado pela Lei da Selva, ele encontra personagens memoráveis, como o perverso tigre Shere Khan, a sábia pantera-negra, Baguera, e o afável urso Balu.