Rudyard Kipling

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, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also …

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 games with …

Knihy džunglí je dvoudílná kniha dobrodružných povídek a novel, kterou napsal anglický spisovatel Rudyard Kipling, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 1907. První díl vyšel roku 1894 pod názvem Kniha džunglí a o rok později následovalo pokračování s titulem Druhá kniha džunglí. Ustálená současná nakladatelská …

Ztracený svět s podtitulem: čili zpráva o úžasných nedávných dobrodružstvích profesora G. E. Challengera, Lorda Johna Roxtona, Profesora Summerleea a pana E. D. Malonea z redakce Daily Gazette je epistolární román žánru science fiction, který napsal sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Poprvé vyšel na pokračování v časopise Strand …

Knihy džunglí je dvoudílná kniha dobrodružných povídek a novel, kterou napsal anglický spisovatel Rudyard Kipling, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 1907. První díl vyšel roku 1894 pod názvem Kniha džunglí a o rok později následovalo pokračování s titulem Druhá kniha džunglí. Ustálená současná nakladatelská …

Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning …

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts …

"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. The story has often been anthologized, and has been published more than once as a short book in its own right. The story was adapted as an animated short in 1965 and as a live-action feature film …