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Rudyard Kipling

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.

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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling: Collected Works presents a comprehensive anthology of one of the most significant literary figures of the British Empire. This collection showcases Kipling's masterful command of narrative and verse, offering readers a deep dive into the intricate interplay of adventure, colonialism, and the human condition that characterize his works. From the poignant tales of "The Jungle Book" to the striking poems that grapple with themes of imperialism and identity, Kipling amalgamate...

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“The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.”Rudyard Kipling’s collection of fables, based on the ancient tales and folklore of his birthplace in India, starts off with the most famous one — the story of the man-cub Mowgli...

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Now a major motion picture starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, and Idris Elba: The amazing adventures of a boy named Mowgli and his brave animal friendsThe fourteen fables in this landmark of children's literature tell the story of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. With the help of Baloo the bear, Kaa the python, and Bagheera the black panther, Mowgli learns the laws of the wild and survives countless escapades—none more thrilling than his c...

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Just so Stories was written by Rudyard Kipling and was first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.

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First published in 1897, "Captains Courageous" is another brilliant story and a maritime adventure created by the very versatile Rudyard Kipling."Captains Courageous" tells the story of a 15-year-old boy named Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a wealthy railroad tycoon. He is on an ocean liner bound for Europe when he falls overboard and is rescued by a group of cod fisherman off the coast of Newfoundland. Harvey tries to get the fisherman to take him back to port, but they ref...

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Charged with action and suspense, yet profoundly spiritual, Kim vividly expresses the sounds and smells, colors and characters, opulence and squalor of complex, contradictory India under British rule. The book abounds in brilliant descriptions of Indian scenes and deeply sympathetic portraits of her people. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

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The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-4. The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont.The tales in the bo...

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Rudyard Kipling, Garrett Valeford

The Just So Stories for Little Children gathers Rudyard Kipling's celebrated "origin" tales, whimsical explanations for how the whale got his throat, the camel his hump, the leopard his spots, and the alphabet its form. Written in a cadenced, incantatory prose meant to be read aloud, the stories combine nursery intimacy with the structure of ancient myth and folktale. In their illustrated form, Kipling's own visual imagination reinforces the book's playful mixture of fantasy, moral wit, an...

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Macmillan Collector's Library

These twelve magical tales tell, among other things, how the camel got his hump; the leopard his spots; the elephant his trunk; how the alphabet was made; and how a butterfly caused mayhem at the court of King Solomon. Rightfully considered one of the enduring classics of children's literature, Just So Stories is an enchanting collection that still delights and illuminates over a century after it was first published.Beautifully illustrated throughout by Kipling himself, th...

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Do you wonder how the camel got his humps or the leopard her spots? Rudyard Kipling’s classic Just So Stories tells the thrilling and mystical tales of how some of the most famous animals came to be.Similar to his story “How Fear Came to Be” from The Second Jungle Book, which explains how the tiger got his stripes, the tales in Just So Stories are original stories and, along with The Jungle Book, are counted among Kipling’s most popular works for...

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Rudyard Kipling

This file includes 29 books: Actions and Reactions, American Notes, Barrack Room Ballads and Departmental Ditties, Captains Courageous, The Day's Work, A Diversity of Creatures, France at War, Indian Tales, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Kim, Letters of Travel, Life's Handicap Being Stories of Mine Own People, The Light that Failed, The Man Who Would Be King, Plain Tales from the Hills, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies, Sea Warfare, The Second Jungle Book, Soldiers Three, Songs ...