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"Puck of Pook's Hill" is a work for children by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by Puck.

"The Jungle Book" (1894) is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six and a half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont.

You're up against the wall with nowhere to turn...heart pounding, muscles tense, adrenaline pumping! There's no escape when you're listening to... Escape! Get set for 20 seat-of-your-pants excursions into the world of high adventure!

The fierce and violent monkey people kidnap Mowgli. It is up to Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, and Kaa the python to save him from hundreds of tree dwelling maniacs before the man-cub is dashed to his destruction.

When Kim O'Hara's Irish parents die, he is left to raise himself on the streets of Lahore where he scrapes a living. After being recognized by an acquaintance of his father, Kim is sent to an English school to learn espionage, and his education is paid for by an old Tibetan priest. After graduating the two are reunited and two roam India in search of the River of the Arrow, which will wash away all sin. Kim must find a way of reconciling his status as both a sahib (white European) and a chela (disciple).

Including the stories "Lispeth", "Beyond the Pale", and "In the Pride of His Youth", this collection tells of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances, and divided identities, creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society. Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore when Kipling was a journalist, the tales were later revised by him to re-create as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for readers at home.

Powiesc przygodowa osadzona w Indiach. Dwójka mlodych Amerykanów przybywa do tego egzotycznego kraju, z zupelnie innych powodów. W pewnym momencie jednak ich drogi krzyzuja sie. Ona pragnie pomagac ubogim Hindusom, on chce zdobyc Czarny Diament. Tajemnice, intrygi, atmosfera grozy budowana przez mroczna scenerie zamków, ruin miast, swiatyn, czynia "Królewski klejnot", jedna z najciekawszych powiesci w dorobku Kiplinga i idealny pomysl na scenariusz hollywoodzkiej superprodukcji.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. 'Wireless' is a multilayered story set in a chemist's shop, where the nephew of the business' owner occupies a back room where he is experimenting with Marconi's new radio technology. The chemist's assistant, lovesick and also sick with tuberculosis, is staying in the shop overnight. The narrator is visiting, officially to observe the radio experiments...but he discovers that another set of signals are being received in the chemist's shop.

In the yellow hues of the African plains, hunting was easy for the leopard, whose light coat served as camouflage. When all the animals moved away, the hungry leopard had to follow them to the striped, splotchy, spotted forest. But he didn't stand a chance of survival unless, of course, he acquired spots himself.

En av nobelpristagarens Kiplings mest älskade verk, nästefter Djungelboken, kretsar kring den föräldralösa Kim som lever ett kringströvande liv i Indien i början av 1900-talet som då låg under brittiskt styre. Han får sitt levebröd av att tigga och göra ärenden på gatorna i staden Lahore (idag i Pakistan) och läsaren får ta del av färgstarka skildringar av bazarernas vimmel, den religiösa och kulturella mångfalden. Kim blir snart lärjunge till en tibetansk lama och tar därefter värvning i underrättelsetjänsten i kriget mot Ryssland.

Ausgesetzt im indischen Dschungel wird der Menschenjunge Mogli von Wölfen großgezogen. Mit seinen Freunden, dem Panther Baghira und dem Bären Balu, erlebt er fantastische Abenteuer: Er wird von Affen entführt, begegnet der Schlange Kaa und stellt sich dem Tiger Schir Khan. Doch als Mogli schließlich in die Welt der Menschen zurückkehrt, ahnt er, dass ihm das größte Abenteuer seines Lebens noch bevorsteht.

The Jungle Book is a series of fables written about wild animals and a boy named Mowgli. Most of the short stories in the collection are about Mowgli, who wanders off into the Indian jungle while being pursued by a vicious tiger, Shere Khan. Shere Khan is lame and cannot catch Mowgli on his first attempt.

This playful tale, in which a Parsee man seeks revenge on the nasty piggish rhino, is among the best known of Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories.

This playful tale is one of the best known of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories. In this one, pride and arrogance prove to be the downfall of a lazy camel.

Rudyard Kipling's story of how the elephant got its trunk has always delighted children with its playful use of language and sense of high adventure. Never has there been a more satisfying rendering of Kipling's most beloved "Just So" story, which explains what the world was like "in the beginning of years when the world was new and all..." Ages five and up. Narrated by Jack Nicholson with musical accompaniment by Bobby McFerrin.

Der zweite, weniger bekannte Band des Dschungelbuchs vereint all diejenigen Dschungelbuch-Texte Kiplings, die nicht von Mogli, sondern von anderen, ebenso faszinierenden Helden erzählen: von der weißen Robbe Kotick, die aufgrund ihrer Fellfarbe von brutalen Robbenfängern verschont wird und von da an dafür kämpft, auch ihre Artgenossen zu retten. Vom kleinen Mungo Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, der seine Familie mehrmals vor giftigen Schlangen beschützt.

Ein tierisch spannendes und lustiges Dschungelabenteuer.

Wer kennt nicht Mogli und seine Freunde, Baghira, den Panther und Balu, den Bären? Dieser Kinderbuchklassiker erzählt die spannende Geschichte von Mogli und dessen Aufnahme in das Wolfsrudel bis hin zu seiner abenteuerlichen Rückkehr zu den Menschen.

Nacherzählt von Katrin Hoffmann.

Just So Stories is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling in 1902. He developed them during one of his many journeys to Africa. He told children wonderful accounts of how the animal kingdom's eccentricities came about. The collection of stories came to be known for their wordplay and insistence of placing the wisdom of children at the heart of his stories.

Four short stories are included in this volume of Kipling works. They are: "Mowgli's Brothers" - Mowgli, a small boy, is found orphaned in the jungle by wolves and raised by them; "Kaa's Hunting" - Mowgli is kidnapped by the Bandar-log (monkeys) and rescued by Kaa, a python; "The White Seal" - The community of seals believe a great white seal will come, and deliver them from the wrath of the seal hunters; and "Rikki Tikki Tavi" - A young mongoose defends his human family against a pair of marauding cobras.

Sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories.