Rudyard Kipling: 844 books

This eBook edition of "The Irish Guards in the Great War" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. These volumes try to give soberly and with what truth is possible, the experiences of both battalions of the Irish Guards from 1914 to...

Kim is a picaresque novel written by a Nobel Prize-winning English author, Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 and in Cassell's Magazine during January to November 1901. The novel is about the detailed portrait of the people, culture, and...

El grandísimo narrador que fue Rudyard Kipling consiguió con "Kim" una historia inolvidable desde todos los puntos de vista, tanto formales como estilísticos. La prosa colorida y sonora de esta novela es tan maravillosa que seduce casi sin proponérselo: la sensualidad de las descripciones,...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling, born 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an eng short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England...

Each story is different in its own accord. And Rudyard Kipling's writing makes you feel like you are a character in the story. A wonderful read!(Goodreads)

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James famously said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907,...

Décidément Nick Tarvin ne comprend rien à cette jeune fille ! Enfant, elle allait puiser avec lui l’eau de la rivière lors de la construction du chemin de fer. Et voici que l’infirmière Kate Shérif qui revient de ses études le regarde à peine. Jeune notable de la petite ville de Topaze...

The Kipling stories were among the very first adventure books. So much detail of a time and place that no longer exists. Classic reading to share with children. Contents Biographical sketch -- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep -- Wee Willie Winkie -- The dove of Dacca -- The smoke upon your altar...

Ten of the best Kipling stories, specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Adam Roberts, who also provides a critical analysis of the form and style of Kipling's work. This edition is part of the new Comma Classics series, launched to celebrate past masters of the short story with...

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.

« De quelle façon, repris-je, vaut-il mieux se mettre à l’œuvre ? — Parle-leur d’abord des choses que toi et eux vous avez vues ensemble. Parle-leur ensuite de ce que toi seul as vu, puis de ce que tu as entendu dire, parle-leur batailles et rois, chevaux, diables, éléphants et anges,...

Queste storie raccolte in ogni luogo e da ogni sorta di persone – dal santone, dall’intagliatore, dal falegname, da sconosciuti su piroscafi e treni, da donne che cicalano al crepuscolo, da ufficiali morti e sepolti – annunciano la nascita di uno scrittore, il primo a rivelare un intero subcontinente...

It is hardly fair to Mr. Kipling to call American Notes first impressions, for one reading them will readily see that the impressions are superficial, little thought being put upon the writing. They seem super-sarcastic, and would lead one to believe that Mr. Kipling is antagonistic to America in...

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...