Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Limits and renewals. "Thy servant a dog."
Author: Rudyard KiplingLimits and Renewals. 'Thy Servant a Dog'.
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Just So Stories for Little Children
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199538603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told"? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world. He plays games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends' children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading. This fully illustrated edition icludes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Kipling's Art of Fiction 1884-1901
Author: David SergeantPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199684588
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
David Sergeant grew up in west Cornwall and studied English at Oxford, where he is now a Junior Research Fellow. He is a published poet and has also written on Robert Burns and Ted Hughes.
The Jungle Books
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199536457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
War Stories and Poems
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192836861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems provides critical comment on the ineptitude of the British in the Boer War. Including such stories as "Barrack-Room Ballads," this work provides tales of courage and adventure, as well as shameful episodes of retreat and failure.
Limits and Renewals
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075511728X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Limits and Renewals, Kipling's last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Dark and penetrating in tone, these are brilliant portraits of a soul in torment with some welcome relief coming in the tales of 'Aunt Ellen' and 'The Miracle of Saint Jubanus'.
Kim
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141971282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, Kim captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj. Contains an introduction by Harish Trivedi placing the novel in its literary and social context. Also includes notes, chronology, further reading, a General Preface by the series editor Jan Montefiore and Edward Said's famous introduction from the previous Penguin Classics edition as an appendix.
The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141966548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 963
Book Description
Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly realized world of the 'Indian' stories that made his name, through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly-wrought subtleties of his later pieces. Including the tale of insanity and empire, 'The Man Who Would Be King', the high-spirited 'The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat', the fable of childhood cruelty and revenge 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep', the menacing psychological study 'Mary Postgate' and the ambiguous portrayal of grief and mourning in 'The Gardener', here are stories of criminals, ghosts, femmes fatales, madness and murder.
The Complete Stalky & Co
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192669648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories is the question 'What happened to these fifteen-year-old boys, and how did the lessons they learned at school apply to the world of warfare and imperial government?' The stories are based on Kipling's own school, the United Services College at Westward Ho! in Devon, which prepared boys destined for the army or for colonial service; Kipling himself appears as the subordinate character, Beetle. This edition includes five Stalky stories which did not appear in the original volume, and thus constitutes a Complete Stalky & Co. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.