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  • American Notes

    Serier serie World Classics
    "In American Notes", the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880's.Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that make a ... Læs mere

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  • The Brushwood Boy

    Serier serie World Classics
    "The Brushwood Boy" tells the story of British army officer, George Cottar, following him from childhood and into his first posting to India. During his placement, Cottar keeps dreaming of a young girl he once met, a dream that always starts with a heap of brushwood near the shore. Upon his return to Britain, he meets the girl again, who it so happens, has also been dreaming of him for the last 21 ... Læs mere

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  • The Man Who Would Be King

    Serier serie World Classics
    "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is inspired by the real-life actions of James Brook, a British soldier who made himself Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo). In this short story, Kipling tells of two crook characters, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, through a third character, an Indian journalist, who is acquainted with the men. Their plan is simple: they will leave India and go to Kafiristan, a ... Læs mere

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  • Kim

    Serier serie World Classics
    "Kim" is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the British Empire, around the time of the Second Afghan War. It tells the story of the street-wise orphan Kimball O'Hara, a highly moral Irish-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed in the "Great Game" (a term coined by Kipling himself) — the competition between Britain and Russia for the control over Asia. Taking time off from his role as the ... Læs mere

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  • Just So Stories for Little Children

    Serier serie World Classics
    The "Just So Stories for Little Children" is among Kipling's best known and loved work. The stories focus on different animals, and how they got their distinctive features. You will for example discover why the elephant's trunk is so very long, and how the leopard got its spots.Written originally for his own daughter, the author's pleasure in playing with the sounds and meanings of words is very ... Læs mere

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  • The Jungle Book (Golden Deer Classics)

    The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling.The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, ... Læs mere

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  • THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (Spy Thriller Classic) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Sinister Assassination Plot & A Gripping Tale of Love, Action and Adventure

    The Thirty-Nine Steps is a foundational work of the modern spy thriller, a taut pursuit narrative in which the ordinary yet resourceful Richard Hannay stumbles upon an international conspiracy on the eve of war. Buchan's prose is brisk, economical, and vividly topographical, turning the Scottish moorlands and Edwardian railway lines into instruments of suspense. Published in 1915, the novel ... Læs mere

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  • The Red Badge of Courage

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    The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run....As far as war was ... Læs mere

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Stephen Crane (Illustrated)

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    The American novelist Stephen Crane is now recognised by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Having won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novel ‘The Red Badge of Courage’, Crane was prolific throughout his short life, creating notable works in the Realist and American Naturalism traditions.  Now readers can enjoy Crane’s ... Læs mere

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  • The Thirty-Nine Steps

    af John Buchan ...
    John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Hannay and became a foundational work in the spy-thriller genre. Taking place only months before the outbreak of World War One (and written during the conflict) it focuses on Hannay’s attempts to warn the government of an unfolding plot to steal Great Britain’s military plans. Throughout the book ... Læs mere

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  • 12 Books

    af Stephen Crane ...
    This file includes twelve books: Active Service, Black Riders and Other Lines (poetry), The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War, Last Words, Maggie: a Girl of the Streets, The Monster and Other Stories; Men, Women and Boats; ORuddy, The Red Badge of Courage, The Third Violet, War Is Kind (poetry), and Whilomville Stories. According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Crane (November 1, ... Læs mere

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  • Irish Portraits

    14 Short Stories

    From vicious rival brothers to desperate single mothers, frisky newlyweds to frigid life partners, Patrick McGinley covers all kinds of Irish (or simply human) relationship in this collection of short stories. In fourteen stories, some brief glimpses of an hour in the life, some longer explorations of years of growing animosity, McGinley explores the ties that bind us: the bond of family, ... Læs mere

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