Rudyard Kipling

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Title: The Jungle Book: Description:
Lost in the heart of the jungle a young child named Mowgli wanders into the den of two wolves who take pity on him and deide to raise him as their own.

Title: The Jungle Book (penguin Popular Classics): Description:
From the moment a little naked cub wanders into the lair of Father Wolf and Mother Wolf to the moment when the master of the jungle returns to his own people, Mowgli's adventures comprise a fable of human life

Title: Tales From The Jungle Book (penguin Children's 60s S.): Description:
This is one in a series of "Penguin Children's 60s" titles

Title: Plain Tales From The Hills: Description:
Sixteen short stories about people living in India at the time of the British Raj. Read by Martin Jarvis

Title: How The Leopard Got His Spots (mini Classics): Description:
The new Mini Classica series brings the works of our greatest authors to a whole new generation of children. Rewritten especially for a young audience and lavishly illustrated throughout, they form a perfect miniature library to collect and treasure.

Title: Kim (wordsworth Classics): Description:
This novel tells the story of Kimball O'Hara (Kim), who is the orphaned son of a soldier in the Irish regiment stationed in India during the British Raj. It describes Kim's life and adventures from street vagabond, to his adoption by his father's regiment and recruitment into espionage. About the Author Born in Bombay, India, but raised in England from the age of five, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is today best known as the author of such classics of literature as The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1902) and Just So Stories (1902). He returned to India in 1882 to become a journalist and local newspaper editor and began writing supernatural stories set in his native continent. Kipling was the first British writer to be award the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907.

Title: Just So Stories (penguin Popular Classics): Description:
Distant lands, the beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the jungle and its beasts, even the desert, are the exotic settings for these stories. Inspired by Kipling's natural empathy with the animal world the subjects range from the animals themselves to the origins of things.

Title: The Light That Failed: Description:
This is the story of the Light that failed,as it was originally conceived by Rudyard Kipling

Title: Kim: Description:
the readers digests print of rudyard kiplings kim 1994

Title: Rudyard Kipling: Description:
Stories contained in this book are, The jungle book, The second jungle book, Just so Stories, Puck of Pooks Hill and Stalky and co.

Title: The Jungle Book: Description:
The classic story of Mowgli and his friends in the Jungle

Title: Kipling's Soldiers: A Selection Of Rudyard Kipling's Poems: Description:
This is an illustrated selection of Kipling's 24 poems with a military theme.

Title: A Choice Of Verse: Description:
Chosen by, and with an essay from, T.S. Eliot.

Title: A Choice Of Prose: Description:
Gathers twenty-eight stories about Englishmen in the far reaches of the British Empire.

Title: The Man Who Would Be King: And Other Stories (oxford World's Classics): Description:
"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India, who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the "white Raja" of Sarawak in Borneo, and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who was granted the title Prince of Ghor in perpetuity, for himself and his descendants. It incorporates a number of other factual elements such as the European-like appearance of many Nuristani people, and an ending modelled on the return of the head of the explorer Adolph Schlagintweit to colonial administrators.

Title: Jungle Book (first Disney Picture Books): Description:
This picture book features characters from the Disney film "Jungle Book". It retells the full story and uses amusing illustrations to highlight "talkabout" features.

Title: Plain Tales From The Hills (penguin Popular Classics): Description:
1888. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, he was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Kipling's first collection of stories published in journals, contains tales about India and about the British in India. He establishes the subject which inspired so much of his work right at the beginning; that is, how India affected the British soldiers and officials who worked there. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Title: The Jungle Book: Description:
Lost in the heart of the jungle, a young child named Mowfli wanders intothe den of two wolves, who take pity on him and decide to raise him as their own. But life in the jungle is harsh for a man cub,and he has a lot of lessons to learn if he is to survive. Various animal friend help him in his struggles, including Bagheera, the wise panther, and Baloo, the laidback bear.