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Thirty-one early short stories by the master story teller Rudyard Kipling.

In 1889, 24-year-old Rudyard Kipling was making his way from India to England. On his trip, he traveled to San Francisco and went from Yellowstone National Park to Salt Lake City, and then headed to London. This audiobook focuses on Kipling’s time in the West on that trip, using an excerpt of From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel, published most recently in 1913. The excerpt includes letters 22-32. Kipling reveals a wit and sarcasm, pointing out American foibles. The mix of what Kipling likes and dislikes show us imperial and racist attitudes all too common in Kipling’s day.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet and novelist. The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat is one of Kipling's rare humorous stories. A group of friends out for a motor jaunt find themselves up on a trumped up speeding charge exacerbated by some outrageously insulting sarcasm from a country town magistrate. The group pit their ample wits and resources to exact their extraordinary revenge....

Esta historia se inicia en la selva india del siglo XIX cuando una pareja pierde a su hijo al huir del ataque de Shere Khan, un enorme tigre de bengala. El niño se refugia en una cueva de lobos, quienes lo salvan del temible tigre y lo criaron como su propio hijo llamándolo Mowgli. Mowgli aprende a vivir en la selva, ayudado y protegido por dos grandes amigos el oso Baloo y la pantera Bagueera. Pero Shere Khan se mantendrá al acecho como su peor enemigo.

From Rudyard Kipling's classic The Jungle Book, Rikki Tikki Tavi is the story of a mongoose and two cobras. Taken in after being washed into the garden of a British family in India, he protects the house from the devious cobras Nag and Nagaina with help from his friends and mongoose cunning.

Young Harvey Cheyne is rich, spoiled, prejudiced, and totally lacking in the real experiences of life. When the fifteen-year-old is accidentally washed overboard a great ocean liner headed for Europe, he is picked up by a fisherman and brought aboard the fishing schooner We're Here. Harvey's stories of privilege and wealth mean nothing aboard this hard-working vessel, and the boy receives many lessons in self-reliance, values, and hard-bitten reality—"things every man must know, blind, drunk, or asleep."

When the young bank clerk Charlie Mears comes up with an innovative idea for a new story, he has no notion just how amazing his tale is. Inspired by dreams which are memories of former lives, he takes us back to the vivid and brutal world of ancient Greece. But Charlie’s own literary skill is not equal to the task of writing his novel. His friend must take on the challenge of extracting the finest tale in the world from the reluctant and ever-distracted brain of the young clerk. But just as there seems to be some progress, something most unexpected occurs….

Questa raccolta di storie fu pubblicata nel 1894. Le prime tre storie della raccolta, “I fratelli di Mowgli”, “La caccia di Kaa”, e “Tigre. Tigre!” rappresentano la saga di Mowgli, a cui ci si riferisce comunemente col nome di Libro della giungla. Ma il libro contiene anche altre storie, non meno belle e interessanti: “La foca bianca”, “Rikki-tikki-tavi”, “Toomai degli elefanti”, e “I servitori della Regina”.

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. The young elephant has an unfortunate encounter with a crocodile, which results in his nose being stretched, which is how he got his trunk.

Boris Karloff, Raymond Massey and Christopher Hassall read a selection of Rudyard Kipling's finest short stories and poetry. Also included in this celebration is Kipling himself giving a speech to a group of Canadian authors and reflecting on war.

A whimsical tale from a time long ago when all the tame animals were wild, and the wild animals were outrageous, this story relates how the dog and the horse were tamed by man, and how the cat became so...cat-ish.

The Jungle Book is a collection of amazing stories written by the famous Rudyard Kipling. The timeless stories enjoyed by both children and adults alike were first published in magazines in 1893-94 and reveal much of Kipling’s India, the country of his birth and where he spent the first six years of his life. The tales in the book are fables where the main characters are animals that teach timeless moral lessons.

On a summer’s day we have perhaps all wished to take flight and view life and the world from the vantage point of a clear blue sky. Our feathered friends do it as a matter of course, and in this volume some of our finest wordsmiths speak with imagination, longing and desire on their behalf.

A moment of drunken disrespect sets the stage for the battle for the soul of a man in this Rudyard Kipling classic! A multi-cast, fully soundscaped audio drama!

Nashemu staromu kenguru bylo vechno zharko; no v te vremena, o kotoryh ja govorju, on byl sovsem drugim zver'kom i begal na chetyreh koroten'kih nogah. Shkurka u nego byla seraja, pushistaja, i on otlichalsja gordym nravom. Stranno, on bol'she vsego gordilsja tem, chto tanceval na gornoj ploshhadke v centre Avstralii.

Mark Redfield performs an eclectic mix of story excerpts, poems, and favorite readings of some of his favorite British and American storytellers.

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, ...

Have you got your teddy? Settle down for bedtime this Easter with a collection of enchanting short stories and fairy tales.

In the summer of 1893, Rudyard Kipling had an Indian-style house built in the wilds of Vermont. Naulakha, the name he gave his new home, became part of the legend of Kipling's creative life. It was here that he wrote his most famous work: The Jungle Book, and his best-known poem If.

Das Dschungelbuch - wer kennt es nicht? Die ergreifende Geschichte vom Menschenjungen, das in der Obhut der Wölfe im Dschungel aufwächst, und von seinen Lehrmeistern Balu und Bagheera auf das Leben vorbereitet wird - und auf den Kampf mit Shir Khan... Ein immer wieder packendes Werk über Kindheit, Verlust, das Erwachsenwerden - und natürlich Familie, Liebe und Zusammengehörigkeit!