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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books. He is regarded as an innovator in the art of the short story, his children's books are enduring classics

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These tales have been collected from all places, and all sorts of people, from priests in the Chubara, from Ala Yar the carver, Jiwun Singh the carpenter, nameless men on steamers and trains round the world, women spinning outside their cottages in the twilight, officers and gentlemen now dead and buried, and a few, but these are the very best, my father gave me. The greater part of them have been published in magazines and newspapers, to whos...

KIM is an utterly enchanting tale of personal growth, filial love, and the joy of life -- set in India during the British Raj. Kim O'Hara, a cunning and street-wise orphaned Sahib, a child of India in all but blood, embarks upon a journey with a Tibetan lama in search of spiritual cleansing. Kim matures under the lama's patient guidance and, in turn, gives his heart to his mentor. The two support each other through the passages they both must ...

KIM is an utterly enchanting tale of personal growth, filial love, and the joy of life -- set in India during the British Raj. Kim O'Hara, a cunning and street-wise orphaned Sahib, a child of India in all but blood, embarks upon a journey with a Tibetan lama in search of spiritual cleansing. Kim matures under the lama's patient guidance and, in turn, gives his heart to his mentor. The two support each other through the passages they both must ...

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This series collects together the best-known aphorisms, epigrams and reflections of a wide variety of figures from antiquity to our own age: humorists and novelists, poets and philosophers, politicians and playwrights.

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Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling's finest works, including the stories "In the House of Suddhoo, ” "The Disturber of Traffic, ” and "The Eye of Allah, ” the poems "The Runners, ” "The Return of the Children, ” and "The Last Ode, ” and his famous story about Afg...

Imagine an alternate reality where the man who gave the world THE JUNGLE BOOK and "Gunga Din" and "The Phantom 'Rickshaw" was a science fiction writer -- generations before Hugo Gernsbeck and AMAZING, before the pulp SF that dominated the thirties, before intellectually prescient ASTOUNDING in the forties and sophisticated literary SF magazines like GALAXY and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION fifties. Think of it: a world where Rudy...

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Written for his daughter, Kipling's magical fables artfully expose the foibles of human nature while tickling the funny bone.

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, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Includes "Toomai of the Elephants, " "The White Seal, " "Mowgli's Brothers, " and "Tiger! Tiger!

A Penguin ClassicThe Portable Kipling contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three, more than twenty stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King, " "The Cat that Walked by Himself, " "The Eye of Allah, "and the unsettling "Mary Postgate", more than fifty poems, and three essays. The volume also includes a complete chronology and a critical introduction by Irving Howe that permits us to see the formal achievements of Kipling's...

Here are the stories and songs of Kipling's second JUNGLE BOOK: tales of Mowgli and his Seeonee Wolf-Pack and, of course, Akela the wolf, of Bagheera, the panther, Kaa, the Rock Python, Baloo, the Bear, and so many others. They are the tales of Mowgli, the lost boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India, brought up on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill, and they have captivated children and adults alike for generatio...

Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky & Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a trio of poetic pranksters, "Stalky, " "Beetle" and "Turkey" as they wage war on fellow students and the "establishment" with unwavering energy and creativity.

Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky & Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys private school repeatedly pursue a trio of poetic pranksters, "Stalky, " "Beetle" and "Turkey, " as they wage war on fellow students and the "establishment" with unwavering energy and creativity. Stalky & Co. is at times poignant in its realistic portray...