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  • Indian Tales

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    The stories, characters, situations, portrayals, dialogues are fresh, rich and funny, even though they were written almost a 100 years ago. The language was very Victorian but the stories probably would not have been so funny if not in such an honorary language justifying the colonial times the stories are based on. The most light and funny situations are explained in such a rich language that ... Læs mere

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  • Plain Tales from the Hills

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new."Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short ... Læs mere

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  • The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    This collection includes Kipling classics: The Phantom 'Rickshaw; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes; The Recrudescence of Imray; My Own True Ghost Story; At the End of the Passage; The Man Who Would Be King; and The Mutiny of the Mavericks.Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. ... Læs mere

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  • Captains Courageous

    A Story of the Grand Banks

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    A pampered millionaire's son tumbles overboard from a luxury liner and falls into good fortune, disguised in the form of a fishing boat. The gruff and hearty crew teach the young man to be worth his salt as they fish the waters off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Brimming with adventure and humor.Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and ... Læs mere

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  • The Second Jungle Book

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles. The original book is now worth $3.4 million.Joseph ... Læs mere

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  • Just So Stories

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    The Just So Stories for Little Children are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works.The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi (French for "why") or origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is ... Læs mere

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  • A Diversity of Creatures

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    A Diversity of Creatures was published in 1917, but most of the stories predate World War I, and it shows. The book resembles the just preceding adult collection, Actions and Reactions, more than it does the postwar collections such as Limits and Renewals. It does include one of his all-time great stories, "Mary Postgate", and one other very fine story, the odd SF piece "As Easy as A. B. C." ... Læs mere

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  • Barrack Room Ballads

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    The Barrack-Room Ballads is a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect.The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy" and "Danny Deever", and helped consolidate his early fame as a poet.Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and ... Læs mere

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  • Stalky & Co.

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    First published in 1899, Stalky and Co. is a collection of school stories based on Kipling's 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-maker for the experiences of life. The Complete Stalky & Co., first published 30 years later, includes five stories not published in the original ... Læs mere

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  • France at War

    On the Frontier of Civilisation

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    In 1915, in the second year of the Great War, Kipling made a tour as a journalist on the front of some of the French armed forces. His report of what he had seen of the military activity was published in six articles in the Daily Telegraph, in England, and in the New York Sun. He published some (censored) articles of war journalism in 1915, collected as The New Army in Training and France at War ... Læs mere

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  • The Man Who Would Be King

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    The rugged mountains of 19th-century Afghanistan serve as the backdrop for this humorous and action-packed tale of two happy-go-lucky Britons who take over a remote kingdom. The colorful inhabitants and beautiful prose enrich a beautifully powerful ending.Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: ... Læs mere

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  • Kim

    Serier serie The Kipling Collection
    Kim is a picaresque novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901. The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between ... Læs mere

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