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Mowgli is abducted by monkeys. Baloo, the bear, and Bagheera, the black panther, set out to rescue him with the aid of Chil, the kite, and Kaa, the python.

Step into the world of maritime adventures and the intricate relationships that unfold aboard the high seas. This collection explores the dynamic interplay of authority and camaraderie, capturing the essence of life aboard a ship where every role is crucial to the voyage's success. Each week, our podcast presents a new complete audiobook, offering a fresh perspective on themes of leadership, loyalty, and the challenges of navigating both literal and metaphorical waters. With a mix of styles and eras, listeners can gain insight into the diverse narratives of seafaring life, perfect for those ...

Novelista inglés, Kipling escribió novelas, poemas y relatos ambientados principalmente en la India y Birmania durante la época de gobierno británico.

Novelista inglés, Kipling escribió novelas, poemas y relatos ambientados principalmente en la India y Birmania durante la época de gobierno británico.

Malgrat que va publicar-se el 1894, el llibre conté diversos contes escrits anteriorment per Kipling. Lautor va basar-se en relats i llegendes de l Índia que van fer-li estimar la natura i la vida salvatge. Els seus personatges i el savi Baloo ens ensenyen a conviure en pau.

Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots.

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

El protagonista es Mowgli, el niño adoptado por una manada de lobos en la India después de ser atacado por el temible tigre Shere Khan, que se convertirá en su gran enemigo. Pero Mowgli cuenta además con muchos amigos, como el viejo oso pardo Baloo, que le enseña la Ley de la selva, o Bagheera, la astuta pantera negra, que no dudarán en ayudarle cuando se encuentre en peligro. Joseph Rudyard Kipling fue un escritor y poeta británico nacido en 1865 en Bombay. Autor de relatos, cuentos, libros para niños y poesía.

Se puede decir que ésta es una de las historias o relatos de gatos más conocida de la literatura. Es la historia del comienzo de la vida doméstica: el hombre conoce a la mujer y ocupan una cueva creando el primer hogar. El perro, el cabllo y la vaca que hasta entonces eran salvajes, a través de un pacto no escrito con el hombre, se convierten en domesticados, pero el gato se niega, diciendo "Yo no soy un amigo y tampoco un criado.

Maritim est l'un des labels radiophoniques les plus populaires sur le marché allemand. Nous présentons ici des contes de fées internationaux connus en français.

Kotick, the white seal, searches for five years in order to find a nesting site safe from the seal hunters, and leads the rest of the seals there.

With war correspondents in the Sudan, Dick Heldar, a gifted painter, learns to perfect his art by depicting battle scenes. Years later, an old war wound brings the onset of blindness. While completing his final masterpiece, he struggles to regain control of his life and his love for his childhood sweetheart.

Classic short stories featuring favourites from the animal world.

Enter the magical animal world through the imaginations of Beatrix Potter, Rudyard Kipling and E. Nesbit, beautifully retold by Nicki White and Matt Stewart.

A collection of classic children’s stories to delight and entertain your little ones at bedtime.

Rudyard Kipling’s best-loved book is now the basis for the Netflix film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Freida Pinto, and Rohan Chand The story of Mowgli, the abandoned "man-cub" who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central...

Von 1973 bis 1990 strahlte Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) die beliebte Hörfunksendung "Nur für starke Nerven" (ab 1987 unter dem Namen "Die Mitternachtsstory") aus. Der Schauspieler Friedrich Schönfelder las darin Grusel- und Kriminalgeschichten für Erwachsene zur guten Nacht vor. Bezeichnenderweise schlug er selbst 1972 der Unterhaltungsabteilung des SFB vor, eine Sendereihe zu starten, in der von ihm redaktionell ausgewählte Gruselgeschichten zu Gehör kommen sollten.

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. Swept and Garnished is a horrifying ghost story written shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. It is set against the background of German atrocities and massacres in France in which there was significant loss of civilian life. It tells the tale of a stereotypical old German lady in Berlin who is haunted by an eerie group of murdered French children.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads Kipling’s The Mark of the Beast, where the Indian deity Hanuman confronts an Englishman mocking an idol and begins to metamorphose the man into an animal. The story's title alludes to the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation, suggesting the colonial rulers must eventually pay for desecrating Indian beliefs.