Some thirty of her Majestys men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruisers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded by an old friend. I had some dim knowledge of the interior of a warship, but none of the new world into which I stepped from a Portsmouth wherry one wonderful summer evening in 97.
Drawing from the oral storytelling traditions of India and Africa, Noble prizewinner Rudyard Kipling's vigorous, amusing tales offer imaginative answers to unanswered questions about animals and provide little pearls of wisdom. These classic tales, filled with playfully clever animals and people have entertained young and old alike for over a hundred years.
La luz fallida, obra publicada en 1891, es la primera novela, escrita a los 26 años, del gran narrador anglo-indio Rudyard Kipling. Cuenta la historia de la relación frustrada entre un ilustrador de éxito, Dick Heldar, y una amiga de la infancia, Maisie, que aspira a convertirse en gran artista y a quien aquel toma -con la esperanza de enamorarla- como discípula. Escrita entre la épica y el melodrama, la novela, además de por sus refl exiones sobre el arte y por la historia del protagonista, destaca sobre todo por las crudas e impactantes descripciones de la campaña bélica del Sudán de 1885, imágenes de una desasosegante actualidad. «La victoria y el fracaso son dos imposibles, y hay que recibirlos con idéntica serenidad y con un saludable sentido del desdén», Rudyard Kipling
Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by David Stuart Davies."The Jungle Book" shows Kipling's writing for children at its best. It is a collection of short stories and poems, revolving round the boy Mowgli, who was raised by a pack of wolves in India. We meet the tiger Shere Khan who attacked and drove off Mowgli's parents, Bagheera, the black panther, Baloo 'the sleepy brown bear, and the evil python, Kaa.Other stories include "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", "The White Seal" and "Toomai of the Elephants", and the book contains the original illustrations of J Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) and W H Drake.
El hombre que pudo reinar y otros cuentos reúne cuatro de las mejores historias de Rudyard Kipling pertenecientes a diferentes etapas de su vida creativa: «El hombre que pudo reinar» (1888), obra mae
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.
En 1934, dos años antes de su muerte, Rudyard Kipling reunió en un volumen nueve cuentos y cinco poemas dedicados a los perros, la mayoría publicados anteriormente en revistas o libros. Con múltiples cambios de registro y variedad de circunstancias, estas
En aquell temps, els elefants no tenien trompa. Hihavia una vegada un elefantó tafaner que feia preguntesde tota mena als animals del seu voltant: al’estruç, a la girafa, a l’hipopòtam, a la mona...
First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations - a drunken Irish soldier waking up to find himself worshipped as a god in the Indian holy city of Benares, a monkey let loose in an English village - and from lampooning the attitudes and discourses of the time.
