Rudyard: 846 books

The fascinating tale of Dick Heldar, the blind painter, told in typical Kipling style.

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each season through the eyes and minds of our most gifted...

Kipling’s poem ‘The Dead King’ was written as a eulogy to King Edward VII as a wise devoted monarch who had served his people well. King Edward VII died on May 6th, 1910 and this poem was first printed in The Times, the Morning Post, and other English newspapers on 18 May 1910. Here the poem...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most...

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.

Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is...

In this 1912 edition (originally published in 1891), the author has collected all the lyrics and verses used in his books, excepting the Jungle Books and Just So Stories.  Included are memorable verses such as “Puck’s Song” from Puck, as well as songs from Actions and Reactions, Naulakha, Rewards and Fairies, and other works.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.  "The Years Between," a collection of poems written...

The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. (Puck, who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England", is better known as a character in...

Extrait : "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. Aussi, à la saison...

L’avventura memorabile di un ragazzo che si allena a diventare uomo imparando a vedere oltre il pregiudizio.    «Quando si comincia a leggere Capitani Coraggiosi non si viene accolti da un’introduzione alle regole della navigazione, alla tecnica della pesca al merluzzo, alle leggi del mare…...

EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 05/09/2017. Un bambino si è smarrito nella giungla indiana. È molto piccolo, cammina appena; è tenero e indifeso, ma qualcuno è già sulle sue tracce: si tratta di Shere la malvagia tigre che odia gli uomini, e che ha intenzione di sbranarlo. Un branco di lupi decide...

Una delle raccolte di racconti più famosi della storia, quest'opera di Kipling fu pubblicata su diverse riviste e quotidiani tra il 1893 e il 1894 ed è frutto non solo della sua fantasia, ma anche del suo lavoro come giornalista che lo portò per sei anni come inviato a Bombay, dove già aveva trascorso...

Mowgli, il “cucciolo d’uomo” rapito dalla tigre Shere Khan, viene adottato da una famiglia di lupi che, insieme al buono e saggio orso Baloo e all’agile pantera Bagheera, gli insegna le leggi dure ma giuste della giungla. Le regole non scritte dell’amicizia e della fedeltà ispirano anche...