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collection of favorite classic poems by some of our best loved poets, including Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Love Peacock, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and others.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. This decade is resplendent with literature and its many prodigiously talented authors who write on as varied a range of subjects as might be thought possible. Yet each is studded with careful literary precision and narrative verve. It is a remarkable decade.

Percival William Williams—better known as Wee Willie Winkie—may only be six years old, but he carries the heart of a soldier. Raised among British officers on the rugged Indian frontier, Winkie lives by military discipline, loyalty, and fierce pride in his father’s regiment. When he discovers that a young woman he admires has ridden beyond the safe boundaries of the cantonment, the little boy does the unthinkable: he breaks arrest and rides into danger to protect her.

There is no better way for your child and puppy to unwind for the day that a collection of calming animal stories that will help them settle down for nap time and bedtime. So grab your favourite teddy and join us as we explore some magical worlds together.

The pages of The Jungle Book are opened, and a wild mongoose fights tooth and nail with deadly cobras.

Sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories.

Just So Stories - Amusing and fanciful answers to questions of how animals obtained their individual characteristics. "How the Alphabet Was Made"; "How the Camel Got His Hump"; How the First Letter Was Written"; "The Butterfly That Stamped"; "The Cat That Walked by Himself"; "The Crab That Played with the Sea"; "The Elephant's Child"; "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangeroo"; "How the Leopard Got His Spots"; "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin"; "How the Whale Got His Throat"; "The Beginning of the Armadillos".

In My Own True Ghost Story, Rudyard Kipling delivers a hauntingly humorous tale set in the shadowy outposts of British India—where the rational mind meets the inexplicable. When a weary English traveler spends the night in a decrepit dâk-bungalow, the howling wind, flickering candles, and creaking walls seem to come alive. Then comes the unmistakable sound of a billiard game—played in a room far too small to hold a table, and by players who no longer exist.

The Man Who Would Be King. This rich wonderfully written classic features two opportunists who venture into remote Central Asia with the intention of acquiring a country to rule. Their adventures meet with surprising initial success but then.....

Published in 1899, Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling transports readers to an English boarding school nestled in the coastal town of Westward Ho!—a place notable not only for its quirky name but also for its literary origins, inspired by Charles Kingsleys novel. This captivating collection of linked short stories follows the adventures of the titular character, Stalky, alongside his companions, exploring the complexities of adolescence. With Beetle, a character reminiscent of Kipling himself, and Stalky possibly based on Lionel Dunsterville, these tales delve into themes of bullying, ...

Dive into the eerie and enthralling world of the supernatural with master anthologist Joseph Lewis Frenchs collection of the finest ghost stories ever penned. From the early influential works of Daniel Defoe and Edward Bulwer-Lytton to the chilling narratives of contemporary legends like M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, and E. F. Benson, this anthology promises to deliver a treasure trove of haunting tales that will keep you on the edge of your seat and awake through the darkest hours of the night! - Summary by Ben Tucker

Dramatisations of some of Kipling’s finest fiction for adults, including ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ and The Light That Failed Well-known for his poems and stories set in India during British Imperial rule, Rudyard Kipling was the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature...

En dag hittas Mowgli, ett litet människobarn, ensamt i djungeln av en flock vargar. De bestämmer sig för att ta hand om den unga pojken och lära honom djungelns sätt och vanor. För att klara sig i den vilda naturen får Mowgli lektioner av björnen Baloo. Han lär sig om djungellagen, djurens mästarord och hur man kommunicerar med djuren. Genom spännande äventyr möter Mowgli faror och utmaningar. En gång blir han till och med kidnappad av apor, men räddas som tur är av sina djurvänner. Åren går och Mowgli växer upp, blir modig och stark. Djuren varnar Mowgli för vargarnas planer.

"El Libro de la Selva" es, a grandes rasgos, la historia de Mowgli, un «cachorro humano» acogido por los lobos y criado por una loba (como en la fábula), que lo defenderá desde el principio y hasta el final, en pleno corazón de la selva. Una selva la de este libro inspirada o basada en un lugar real: el Parque Natural de Kanha, creado en el año 1955, ampliado en 1962 y 1970 y ubicado en el Estado del Madhya Pradesh, en la India septentrional.

Im Dschungel findet ein Rudel Wölfe ein von seinen Eltern verlassenes Menschenkind. Sie geben ihm den Namen Mowgli und ziehen ihn groß. Doch von Beginn an ist Mowglis Leben in Gefahr. Shir Khan, der tückische und verschlagene Tiger will den Jungen fressen. Doch Mowgli hat zwei gute Freunde, die das zu verhindern wissen: Balu, den gemütlichen Bären, und Baghira, den schwarzen Panther.

Gegen sieben Uhr an einem recht schwülen Sommerabend in den Sionibergen erwachte Vater Wolf, gähnte, reckte sich und streckte die Läufe, einen nach dem anderen, um das Schlafgefühl in den Pfoten loszuwerden. Neben ihm lag Mutter Wolf, die lange graue Nase quer über den vier winselnden und quarrenden Jungen, und von draußen her schien der Mond in die Höhle, in der sie alle hausten.

Nach Novastoschna kam nie jemand, außer er hatte etwas zu tun; und eigentlich nur die Robben hatten regelmäßig dort etwas zu schaffen. Wenn der Schnee im Sommer geschmolzen ist, dann kamen sie zu Hunderttausenden aus der kalten, grauen See herbei geschwommen, denn die Novastoschnabucht war für Robben der schönste Platz auf der ganzen Welt.

Ein Mungo war Rikki – nach Pelz und buschiger Rute glich er fast einer Katze, doch Kopf und Art waren die eines Wiesels. Seine Augen und die immer bewegliche Nase schimmerten rosig; leicht konnte er sich am ganzen Körper kratzen und putzen und dabei ganz nach Belieben einen seiner Läufe benutzen. Seine Rute konnte er aufplustern, dass sie wie eine Flaschenbürste aussah; und wenn er durch das hohe Gras schnürte, ließ er seinen pfeifenden Schlachtruf ertönen: Rikki-Tikki-Tikki-Tschick!

Kala Nag – das bedeutet: „Schwarze Schlange“ – hatte der indischen Regierung siebenundvierzig Jahre treu gedient in allem, zu dem ein Elefant verwandt werden kann, und da er volle zwanzig Jahre alt war, als er gefangen wurde, so zählte er jetzt beinahe siebenzig – ein schönes Alter für einen Elefanten.

Loss in any form seems to burden us with more weight than anything that can possibly be gained or learnt from. The loss of a person, a loved one, is often overwhelming. Lives so interwoven that the severing or loss of one life leaves the other weakened, unable to function for some time. Recovery comes in a myriad of forms but is usually debilitating, slow and, in the end, we are not as whole as we once were.It is a subject that authors return to again and again.