First published in 1902, “Just So Stories” is Rudyard Kipling’s classic collection of animal fables and poetry. This collection grew out of nighttime story-telling between Rudyard and his daughter Josephine. The peculiar name is drawn from her insistence that these tales, which were origin stories describing how animals got their most distinctive features, be told “just so”. This volume reproduces the complete edition of “Just So Stories” which includes the following stories: “How The Whale Got...
First published in “McClure’s Magazine” between December of 1901 and October of 1901, “Kim” is the story of Kim (Kimball) O’Hara, the orphaned son of a British soldier. Set against the backdrop of “The Great Game” a political conflict between Russia and Great Britain in central Asia, the novel traces the life of the title character from begging and errand running on the streets of Lahore to his schooling at a top English school in Lucknow, where he is trained in espionage, and ultimately to a...
This beautifully illustrated eBook edition of "Puck of Pook's Hill " has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. 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...
"Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People" 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...
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...
This unique collection of «THE COMPLETE MILITARY WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING» has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Table of Contents: A Fleet in Being France at War The New Army in Training Sea Warfare The War in the Mountains The Graves of the Fallen The Irish Guards in the Great War – I The Irish Guards in the Great War – II The America Army America's Defenceless Coasts Autobiography: Something of Myself Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an...
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...
Diese Ausgabe der Erzählungen von Rudyard Kipling wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Dichter. Er gilt als wesentlicher Vertreter der Kurzgeschichte und als hervorragender Erzähler. Seine Kinderbücher gehören zu den Klassikern des Genres. Inhalt: Das Dschungelbuch: Moglis...
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Military Writings of Rudyard Kipling». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: A Fleet in Being France at War The New Army in Training Sea Warfare The War in the Mountains The Graves of the Fallen The Irish Guards in the Great War – I The Irish Guards in the Great War – II The America Army America's Defenceless Coasts...
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...