A thrilling tale of a boy caught between two worlds, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Children’s Signature Clothbound Editions line.Follow Mowgli, the man-cub raised by wolves, on his adventure-filled journey through the heart of the jungle. With guidance from the wise bear Baloo and the graceful panther Bagheera, he learns the complex rules of the wild—but when the fearsome tiger Shere Khan threatens his world, Mowgli must confr...

This ebook contains Rudyard Kipling's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

Rudyard Kipling's poems, song-fragments, and chapter verses gather into a richly varied collection where music, memory, and moral struggle run through every page. From the opening meditations on time, cities, faith, labor, and the illusion of permanence, the book presents a voice that is at once celebratory and questioning, rooted in landscape, myth, and hard-earned experience. Its range is extraordinary: jungle chants, children's songs, imperial reflections, folk ballads, and lyrical medi...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

From Washington Irving's early American hauntings to Virginia Woolf's modernist unease, this sweeping collection gathers thirty tales of ghosts, curses, and things that should not be. Mary Shelley's gothic imagination, Charles Dickens's haunted houses, M. R. James's antiquarian terrors, and Henry James's psychological dread sit alongside Oscar Wilde's wit and H. G. Wells's speculative chills, tracing the occult and supernatural short story across a century of English-language fiction. Whet...

In Many Inventions, Rudyard Kipling moves from lyrical tribute to hard-eyed adventure, celebrating "True Romance" while probing the costs of courage, duty, and obsession. The opening stories plunge into the world of lighthouse keepers on the English south coast, where a blinding beam cuts through fog and the narrator's long night with Fenwick reveals a sailor's lifetime of wrecks, pilotage, and hard-earned maritime wisdom. From there the book turns to Dowse at the lonely Wurlee Light in th...

Rudyard Kipling's witty, provocative address turns a simple idea into a sweeping meditation on human nature. Opening with a Burns quotation, he argues that the wish to stand apart, "own oneself," and live by one's own lights is not a modern pose but an ancient instinct, born in humanity's earliest struggle for survival, balance, and solitude. With humor and irony, he traces the roots of speech, deception, and social life, suggesting that language first served the practical purpose of lying...

Rudyard Kipling's American Notes records his first encounters with the United States in a voice that is sharp, amused, and often caustic. Framed by his rise to fame and his life in Vermont after marrying into the Balestier family, these sketches follow him from New England to the Pacific Coast, where he observes America with equal parts fascination, prejudice, and restless curiosity. In San Francisco, Kipling confronts a city of steep hills, cable cars, reporters, spittoons, and sudden vio...

Set sail, explore the unknown, and embark on unforgettable journeys with some of literature's greatest adventure writers. The Adventure Collection brings together classic works by Jonathan Swift, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Howard Pyle, and Robert Louis Stevenson, five celebrated authors whose stories have inspired generations of adventure readers. From treasure hunts and pirate voyages to dangerous wildernesses, distant lands, sea journeys, and extraordinary encounters, this collection ...

Enter the adventurous and richly imagined world of Rudyard Kipling. The Complete Novels and Stories of Rudyard Kipling brings together the major fiction of Rudyard Kipling, one of the most influential writers of the British literary tradition. Kipling's stories take readers from the streets and landscapes of colonial India to military camps, boarding schools, jungles, ships, and distant corners of the British Empire. His fiction is populated by memorable characters who confront adventure, ...

Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads is a fierce, funny, and unflinching portrait of empire in motion. These verses move from office politics and promotion by influence to barrack-room swagger, frontier gossip, and the brutal logic of colonial power, exposing how bureaucracy, ambition, favoritism, and inefficiency shape daily life. Alongside the satire runs a vivid sense of character: civil servants, soldiers, engineers, ladies of influence, opportunists, and har...

Rudyard Kipling's poems trace a vast patriotic landscape in which England is bound together by faith, duty, sacrifice, and imperial purpose. The collection opens with a moral summons in "A Song of the English," then turns seaward in "The Coastwise Lights," honoring the vigilant guardians who keep ships safe along the coast. From there, "The Song of the Dead" and "Follow After" solemnly remember explorers and adventurers who gave their lives in remote, unforgiving places so others might con...