Maailma lastekirjanduse klassikasse kuuluvate Rudyard Kiplingi lugude tegelasteks on mitmesugused loomad, kes kaugetes ja kummalistes paikades ringi seiklevad. Autori enda ütlust mööda jutustas ta neid lugusid kõigepealt oma lastele unejuttudeks ning alles hiljem pani kirja ja avaldas raamatuna. Kogumikus leidub mitmeid tuntuid jutustusi, nagu „Kass, kes kõndis omapead“ ja „Kuidas kaamel omale küüru sai“. Raamatusse on teinud uued illustratsioonid Toomas Pääsuke. Rudyard Joseph Kipling sündis...
"On the City Wall" by Rudyard Kipling. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
"Plain Tales From the Hills" is a classic collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Contained here in this volume are the following tales: Lispeth, Three and—an Extra, Thrown Away, Miss Youghal's Sais, 'Yoked with an Unbeliever', False Dawn, The Rescue of Pluffles, Cupid's Arrows, The Three Musketeers, His Chance in Life, Watches of the Night, The Other Man, Consequences, The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin, The Taking of Lungtungpen, A Germ-Destroyer, Kidnapped,...
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short stories, the tales about India and more noticeably about the British in India. The title refers, by way of a pun on «Plain» as the reverse of «Hills», to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla—the...
Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short stories, the tales about India and more noticeably about the British in India. The title refers, by way of a pun on «Plain» as the reverse of «Hills», to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla—the «summer capital of the British Raj» during the hot weather. The tales include the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hauksbee, the policeman...
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an enthusiastic proponent of British imperialism and writer of poetry, short stories and novels. He was also the first English-language author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Born in Bombay, India, Kipling was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. These contrasting environments preserved in the author nostalgia for the Eden-like setting of India, where he recalled family and friendly local servants doting upon him, and...
A pair of children happen across an ancient shrine, where they conjure up an impish sprite named Puck, who treats them to a series of tales about Old England. Rudyard Kipling, the storyteller behind Puck's fables, lived in the East Sussex region of Pook's Hill. To amuse his children, Kipling created these quasi-historical stories about the people who lived in their neighborhood centuries ago.Readers of all ages will treasure Puck's ten magical tales of adventure and intrigue....
Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practicing his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written. The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own...