Rudyard Kipling: 844 books

El hombre que pudo reinar (1888) trata de dos aventureros británicos en la India que se convierten en reyes de Kafiristán, una parte remota de Afganistán. La historia está inspirada en las hazañas de James Brooke, un inglés que se convirtió en el primer rajá de Sarawak en Borneo y en los viajes...

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told"? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk...

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*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. Contents Biographical sketch -- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep...

This collection of short stories and poetry is based on Kipling’s experiences in the colonies of the British Empire. Written during a period of great change in Kipling’s life, these stories provide a contrast between his fiction and the travel journalism he wrote at the same time (1888 and 1889).

The 'Seven Seas' is a bitter, disillusioned series of poems centred on Britain’s role in colonialism and Empire building. With reverberating lyrics and powerful imagery, Kipling writes of the ruthless means that were often employed to add nations to the glorious Empire, and the subsequent effects...

*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. John Kipling was reported missing, believed killed, in...

Kim est un roman d'aventure à travers l'inde dans laquelle l'auteur a grandi. C'est avec ironie que Kim navigue entre traditions et religions hindoues, tibétaines, arabes et de l’Angleterre coloniale. Kipling nous présente son héros, un enfant comme l'était Mowgli, qui va faire son apprentissage...

Nous sommes en Indes, aux temps glorieux des Colonies, lorsque le soleil ne se couchait jamais sur l'Empire britannique... Trois soldats se parlent et content leurs exploits à sir Kipling. Émouvant, nostalgique, aucun écrit de Kipling ne laisse bien loin l'aventure. Pour ceux qui...

With the Main Guard The Drums of the Fore and Aft The Man who was The Courting of Dinah Shadd The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney The Taking of Lungtungpen The Madness of Private Ortheris Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and...

This edition of Kipling’s "The Song of the English" was originally published in November 1909. It included the six subsidiary poems: The Coastwise Lights, The Song of the Dead, The Deep-Sea Cables, The Song of the Sons, The Song of the Cities, and England's Answer. The theme underlying...

Kipling nous conte dans cette nouvelle les mésaventures d’un homme – le narrateur – en mal d’inspiration qui tente de faire sienne l’histoire imaginée par un autre. Cet autre, Charlie Mears, un jeune commis de 20 ans plein d’aspirations littéraires, est venu le trouver pour qu’il...

Come molte opere di fine Ottocento, anche questo romanzo per ragazzi di Kipling uscì inizialmente a puntate sulla rivista statunitense 'MacClure's Magazine' a partire dal 1897. E' la storia, dal classico canovaccio della formazione giovanile, di Harvey Cheyne: un quindicenne figlio di un magnate...