Rudyard Kipling, página 4 de 51

Kimball OHara is a thirteen year old son of a Irish sergeant stationed in India. After the death of his father, the boy begins his wanderings through India during which he will meet a Buddhist monk with whom will establish a friendship that will last even after his departure to attend the college working under cover with the British secret service.

An unexpected event, such as the fall from the ship on which he is heading out on a crossing to Europe, and the rescue by a fishing boat, will make discover to Harvey Cheyne, the young protagonist, the values ??of loyalty, faithfulness and the joy for the small successes.

This is a classic story of friendship between man and beast. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the snake-fighting mongoose, little Toomai and the elephant's secret dance, and Kotick the white seal are all part of Mowgli's extraordinary journey with his animal friends. This title is brilliantly introduced by bestselling author, Christopher Paolini.

Un cuento sobre la amistad entre un elefante y su alocado cuidador, en el que Rudyard Kipling recrea la India colonial, ha sido el elegido por el dibujante José Mª Gallego para narrarlo en imágenes. El rey de las bestias, Moti Guj, trabajador incansable en las plantaciones de cafe, adquiere en las acuarelas de este gran ilustrador tanta o mas humanidad que su amo, al que adora y obedece. Daniel Gascon ha traducido magistralmente este relato publicado por Kipling en su juventud y que sorprende por su agudo sentido del humor y la capacidad para describir en pocas lineas un mundo en el que los hechos mas fantasticos se convierten en verdaderos cuando son contados.

Reared in the teeming streets of India at the turn of the century, the orphan Kim is the 'Friend of all the World,' an imp with an endless interest in the extraordinary characters he meets daily. One of them, an old Tibetan lama, sets him on the path that will lead him to travel the Great Trunk Road, and become a spy for the British...

Rudyard Kiplings "The Eyes of Asia" takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for King and the British Empire in the First World War.First published in 1918, "The Eyes of Asia" contains four letters purporting to be written to relations or friends at home in India by soldiers of the Indian Army (part of the normal British Forces in that country down to 1947) at the time of World War I, 1914-18. They were on active service in Europe and Africa, 1915-18.The articles forming "The Eyes of Asia" appeared in the American Saturday Evening Post in six parts over the month of May and the beginning of June 1917 and were published in book form in 1918."The Eyes of Asia" consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier, which take place in 1915 and 1916. A Retired Gentleman and The Fumes of the Heart are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers, a Rajput and a Sikh, to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories, The Private Account is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front, and the final story, A Trooper of Horse, takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother.

First published in 1888, "Plain Tales from the Hills" was Kiplings first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette and they were written before Kipling reached the age of 22, showing already a remarkably precocious literary talent. This vignettes of life in British India a hundred years ago give vivid insight into Anglo-India at work and play, into a barrack-room life, and into the character of Indians themselves.

First published in 1912, "Just So Stories for Children" is a collection of Rudyard Kiplings animal tales in which we learn about How the Whale got his Throat, How the Camel got his Hump, How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, How the Leopard got his Spots, The Elephants Child, The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, The Beginning of the Armadilloes, How the First Letter was Written, How the Alphabet was Made, The Crab that Played with the Sea, The Cat that Walked by Himself and The Butterfly that Stamped. These witty, inventive stories have delighted generations of children.The graceful prose and pungent humour of these 12 tall tales place them in the same league with such childrens classics as Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland. Kiplings verbal dexterity remains audible over time--even the openings of his fantastic fictions hark to a golden age of storytelling.

First published in 1888, "Soldiers Three" is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection "Plain Tales from the Hills".Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his childrens books. He is regarded as an innovator in the art of the short story; his childrens books, such as "The Jungle Book", are enduring classics.

Rudyard Kipling wrote some 250 short stories. He published them in all sorts of contemporary newspapers and journals throughout his long career, and it was his practice to bring them together into collections published every few years. These collections form milestones through his oeuvre.It was also his habit to prefix or follow each story with a short poem commenting directly or obliquely on the narratives they decorate a habit he picked up, apparently, from a favourite author, Ralph Waldo Emerson and took to new heights of complex interaction and subtle commentary.This essential 1904 collection takes its name from "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation" by Richard Hakluyt, a compendium of exciting Elizabethan sailing expeditions. "Traffics and Discoveries" includes the following amazing short stories:- The Captive- The Bonds of Discipline- A Sahibs War- "Their Lawful Occasions" (as Part I and Part II)- The Comprehension of Private Copper- Steam Tactics- "Wireless"- The Army of a Dream (as Part I and Part II)- "They"- Mrs. Bathurst- Below the Mill Dam

Un ragazzino gioca seduto a cavalcioni su un gigantesco cannone: e Kim, altrimenti noto come il "Piccolo Amico di tutto il Mondo"; orfano di un sergente irlandese, cresciuto come un monello indiano, Kim e sotto la protezione di due numi tutelari. Il ragazzo gioca per il gusto di giocare e viaggia per il gusto di viaggiare e si mette in marcia lungo la Grand Trunk Road, fiumana di vita che percorre millecinquecento miglia da Bombay a Benares a Peshawur, dando cosi avvio a una scorribanda picara che e insieme un pellegrinaggio religioso.

Mowgli es un niño que llega a la jungla luego de que un viejo tigre asesine a sus padres. Es un niño que crece en la selva y es criado por una pareja de lobos, con quienes aprende a adaptarse a las l

La obra maestra de Kipling y una de las grandes narraciones de todos los tiempos.