Llibre de la jungla constituesix l'obra mestra de immortal de Rudyard Kipling. La força e l'autor dóna vida a Ballo, l'ós savi, agheera, l'afectuosa i intel·ligent pantera negra; Shere Khan, el tigre ferotge; les esbojarrades mones Banderlog; Kaa, la serpent pito i la temible cobra. Tots aquets animals s'humanitzan davant Mowgli _ el nen que ha crescut enmig de la jungla lluny ed tot contacte huma_ per inculcar-li els sentiments de supervivencia, lleialtat, justiia i deure, enmug d'una esplendorosa natura amenaçada per la presenia inexorable de l'home.
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Autor de obras tan famosas como «Kim», «Capitanes intrépidos» y «El hombre que pudo reinar», Rudyard Kipling , Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1907, supo siempre hacer del relato breve una estructura l
This collection opens with The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, the first story Kipling published as a young journalist in india, and ends with an acknowledged masterpiece, The Gardener, written 50 years later in the aftermath of the great war.
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La tumba de sus antepasados cuenta la historia de un soldado cuya familia ha servido en la India desde el principio del Imperio, y a quien los indígenas toman por un dios. El soldado ha de convencer a la poblacion indigena de la necesidad de una vacuna contra un mal que les amenaza con la extincion. En El diablo y la mar profunda asistimos a los esfuerzos de la tripulacion de un barco de no muy buena reputacion legal, que ha de poner en juego toda su capacidad y energia para salir de una situacion limite. En El barco que se encontro a si mismo los personajes son las distintas piezas de un vapor recien botado, que han de enfrentarse a una furiosa tormenta atlantica. Gato Maltes esta considerado como el mejor relato sobre el deporte del polo que se ha escrito nunca, y narra una final de copa desde el punto de vista y las conversaciones de los caballos de humilde pedigri de un modesto equipo indigena, frente a los poderosos adversarios britanicos.
La historia más bella del mundo, obra maestra de la literatura universal, es, como su título preludia, un apasionante relato del Premio Nobel Kipling sobre el hecho de escribir, crear y soñar.
Rudyard Kipling s'inspira en les seves vivencies d'infantesa per escriure els set relats que donen vida a Mowgli i els seus companys de la jungla de l'Índia.
