Rudyard Kipling

Kim er en roman av Rudyard Kipling som kom ut første gang i 1901. Kipling var født i Bombay i India og vokste delvis opp der og delvis i England. Boken forteller om den foreldreløse sønn av en irsk soldat og en engelsk kvinne som vokser opp med en indisk pleiemor til han rømmer og blir gategutt og tigger i Lahore. Han …

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 …

Jungelboken er en samling fortellinger for barn av den engelske forfatteren Rudyard Kipling fra 1894. Før fortellingene ble utgitt i bokform ble de publisert i populære magasiner i tiden 1893–1894. Disse innehold illustrasjoner, en del gjort av forfatterens far, John Lockwood Kipling. Rudyard Kipling ble født i India …

Somewhere in South America, there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs. Only one man has ever been there, and his reports are so astonishing that no-one is prepared to believe him; except the extraordinary Professor Challenger. He decides to take a trip to prove beyond doubt that this lost world …

Jungelboken er en samling fortellinger for barn av den engelske forfatteren Rudyard Kipling fra 1894. Før fortellingene ble utgitt i bokform ble de publisert i populære magasiner i tiden 1893–1894. Disse innehold illustrasjoner, en del gjort av forfatterens far, John Lockwood Kipling. Rudyard Kipling ble født i India …

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 …