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.

In The Bridge-Builders, Rudyard Kipling turns the construction of the Kashi Bridge across the Ganges into a gripping test of endurance, leadership, and human ingenuity. Engineer Findlayson and his young assistant Hitchcock have spent years wrestling with delays, bureaucracy, disease, and unrest to raise a monumental bridge of piers and iron girders above a river that seems to resist being mastered. Their work depends not only on discipline and nerve, but on the practical brilliance of Pero...

Rudyard Kipling's tales of work and crisis turn engineering and relief duty into tests of nerve, loyalty, and endurance. On the Kashi Bridge, rising over the Ganges, weary Public Works officer Findlayson and his young assistant Hitchcock have spent years battling delays, disease, bureaucracy, labor troubles, and the river itself, building a monument to colonial ambition and human perseverance. Beside them stands Peroo, a fierce Lascar serang whose practical genius, rough humor, and hidden ...

Une collection captivante de recits d'aventure signes par cinq maitres du genre : Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Howard Pyle, Rudyard Kipling et Jack London. Voyages en mer, iles mysterieuses, jungles indomptees et grands espaces sauvages composent cet ensemble intemporel, ideal pour les amateurs d'aventures classiques.

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...

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), l'un des plus grands conteurs de langue anglaise, a marqué la littérature mondiale par son art narratif exceptionnel et sa capacité unique à faire vivre l'Inde coloniale, la jungle et l'aventure. Ce recueil rassemble l'ensemble de ses romans et nouvelles les plus célèbres, incluant Le Livre de la jungle, Kim, Capitaines courageux et de nombreuses nouvelles qui ont façonné l'imaginaire collectif. Prix Nobel de littérature en 1907, Kipling demeure une figure inco...

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...

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...

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 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...

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, ...