Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its news range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ' I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim? His soul repeated it again and again.' Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia's political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldier grows up as a street-wise orphan in the city of Lahore. Upon befriending an aged Tibetan Lama, the playful and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «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!…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by David Stuart Davies. The Jungle Book shows Kipling's writing for children at its best. It is a collection of short stories and poems, revolving round the boy Mowgli, who was raised by a pack of wolves in India. We…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Rudyard Kipling surprises us again with these five tales from the animal kingdom. Have you ever wondered why elephants have such long noses and why leopards have spots? Do you know why kangaroos hop around Australia? Find out how a clever young sailor tricked a whale and meet many other unforgettable characters.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Something of Myself, Rudyard Kipling’s memoir of his writing life, was composed in the year before he died and published posthumously. Its spare, polished phrases and masterly anecdotes offer a unique insight into the mind of this divided man who upheld the Victorian imperialist values of duty, patriotism and obedience, and yet sympathized with outlaws and children. Kipling describes with…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A family of wolves take a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle? Will the other wolves want him to stay? And will the dangerous tiger Shere Khan catch him?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «The Jungle Books» can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf — he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Kim, a young Irish boy, lives alone on the streets of the Indian city of Lahore. He meets an old Tibetan lama who is looking for a sacred river. The boy and the old man become great friends and travel across British India. This is Rudyard Kipling's greatest book — a story about the British empire, spies, friendship, spirituality and, most of all, India.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A family of wolves take a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle? Will the other wolves want him to stay? And will the dangerous tiger Shere Khan catch him?
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Three stories, three ghosts. A young woman marries an older man. His first wife is dead. Or is she? Why does a dead man walk through his house each night? An old woman has a house with a tower. Why does she visit a young man in his dreams?
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Three stories, three ghosts. A young woman marries an older man. His first wife is dead. Or is she? Why does a dead man walk through his house each night? An old woman has a house with a tower. Why does she visit a young man in his dreams?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Some six or seven feet above the port bulwarks, framed in fog, and as utterly unsupported as the full moon, hung a Face. It was not human, and it certainly was not animal, for it did not belong to this earth as known to man». Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of «The Jungle Book», the «Just So Stories» and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: «The Jungle Book» introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. «Puck of Pook's Hill» relates how Dan and Una's magical meeting with Puck,…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk A classic story from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, adapted and illustrated by award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney, this is the tale of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a fearless young mongoose. Soon after a flood washes Rikki into the garden of an English family, he comes face-to-face with Nag and Nagaina, two giant cobras. The snakes are willing to attack Rikki, and even the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This is a fascinating selection of Kipling's most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. Life's Handicap reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunted destinies. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the diverse topics featured in Many Inventions. While Traffics…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 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.