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...

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Enter a world where ghosts walk, ancient forces awaken, and the impossible becomes terrifyingly real. 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces in One Book brings together a collection of classic stories exploring the darkest corners of the supernatural imagination. Inside, readers encounter ghostly apparitions, haunted houses, mysterious rituals, occult practices, strange creatures, supernatural encounters, forbidden knowledge, unexplained phenomena, and ancient forces that defy ordinary expl...

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 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...

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...

A Fleet in Being is Rudyard Kipling's vivid, unsentimental account of two journeys with the Channel Squadron, where the everyday life of the Royal Navy becomes a study in power, discipline, and national purpose. From the confusion of maneuvers off the Irish coast to the precision of gun practice, he captures a world ruled by signals, rumor, drill, and the constant possibility of disaster. His sharp, ironic eye finds both comedy and menace in cruiser squadrons, dockyard politics, and the ti...

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 book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen] - The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius] - Meditations [Marcus Aurelius] - Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen] - Lady Susan par [Jane Austen] - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum] - The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie] - The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish] - The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterto...

Among the best loved of all children’s classics, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is set among a community of animals in the jungles of India, where Kipling was born and grew up. Three of the stories feature the adventures of an abandoned “man cub,” a boy named Mowgli, who is raised by wolves in the jungle. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain...

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