Hear and attend and listen...Rudyard Kipling is a supreme master of the short story in English and a poet of brilliant gifts. His energy and inventiveness poured themselves into every kind of tale, from the bleakest of fabl...Loe edasi...
This unique anthology of Kiplings war stories and poems provides critical comment on the ineptitude of the British in the Boer War. Including such stories as Barrack-Room Ballads, this work provides tales of courage and adventure, as well as sham...Loe edasi...
First published in 1899, Stalky and Co. is a collection of school stories based on Kiplings own experiences at the United Services College. Kipling himself appears as the central character called Beetle and through him shows how school is a pattern...Loe edasi...
How did the camel get his hump? Why wont cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kiplings imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables of India, and they are full of...Loe edasi...
This was Kiplings first published volume of fiction. The stories with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story. First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kiplings first volume...Loe edasi...
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India. The Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known...Loe edasi...
Kim, one of Kiplings masterpieces, is the story of Kimball OHara, the orphaned son of an officer in the Irish Regiment who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. The book is a carefully organized, powerful evocation of place and of a young m...Loe edasi...
Arranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kiplings time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short stories explore the themes of isolation and abandonment and the effects of the Indian caste system on society. Alon...Loe edasi...
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First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kiplings first volume of prose fiction. His vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. Witty,...Loe edasi...
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A millionaires spoiled son learns a lesson when, saved from drowning by a fishing schooner, he is made to share the crude life and hard work of his taunting rescuers. Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls ov...Loe edasi...
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This unique anthology of Kiplings war stories and poems provides critical comment on the ineptitude of the British in the Boer War. Including such stories as Barrack-Room Ballads, this work provides tales of courage and adventure, as well as sham...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Stalky & Co. is quite unlike any other collection of school stories, revealing new possibilities and depths.Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stor...Loe edasi...
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Arranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kiplings time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short stories explore the themes of isolation and abandonment and the effects of the Indian caste system on society. Alon...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Kim (1901) is the story of Kimball OHara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. With an old Tibetan lama he travels through India, enthralled by the roaring whirl of the landscape and cities of ric...Loe edasi...
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The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kiplings philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the Mowgl...Loe edasi...
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How did the camel get his hump? Why wont cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kiplings imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables of India, and they are full o...Loe edasi...
