Rudyard: 846 books

In this collection, you will enjoy action, adventure, mystery, and suspense, along with tales of romance, courage, coming of age, and overcoming obstacles. Perfect for long bus rides to or from work or school, or for cozying up with during any quiet moment, you are sure to find a book to suit your...

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...

This volume contains a short autobiography of the seminal English poet and author, Rudyard Kipling. It offers a unique insight into the life and mind of this prolific man of letters, who strove to uphold the Victorian values of patriotism, duty, and obedience; yet simultaneously sympathized with outlaws...

"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a novel 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 first White Rajah of...

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...

This gem is a primary source for Steampunk, actually written in the Victorian era. With it's vision of the future [our present] filled with Zeppelin transports, it's also an early futurist piece. With a slow, steady pace, the story builds to a satisfying conclusion. And with NASA building it's very own cargo blimp, this alternate future may yet come to pass.

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...

Many Inventions brings together a number of Kipling's short stories and includes such works as 'His Private Honour', 'Brugglesmith' and 'The Record Of Badalia Herodsfoot'. Embracing his eternal preoccupations of Anglo-Indian relations and human sufferings, this collection is a fine example of Kipling's entire work.

In these two volumes I have got together the bulk of the special correspondence and occasional articles written by me for the Civil and Military Gazette and the Pioneer between 1887-1889. I have been forced to this action by the enterprise of various publishers who, not content with disinterring old...

The greatest of all wars.  As told by one of England's greatest poets.  'The Irish Guards In The Great War' is a classic of military history - Rudyard Kipling's memorable two volume account of how one regiment fought from 1914-1918.  This e-book edition features an introduction by...

This book contains several HTML tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists...

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of one of the most popular poems in the English language, 'If–', has long captured the interest of poetry lovers. Here, Thomas Pinney brings together a selection of well-established favourites and the best of the...

The Barrack-Room Ballads is a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy" and "Danny...

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...