Rudyard Kipling

Plain Tales from the Hills is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, …

"The Man Who Would Be King" is a novella by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo; and by the travels …

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is een mangoest uit het boek Jungle Book van de Britse schrijver Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is een goed voorbeeld voor alle welpen. Hij is opmerkzaam, leergierig, lenig, snel, dienstbaar, schoon, slim, handig en moedig. Hij werkt graag samen met anderen en wil anderen graag helpen.

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 …

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 …

Het jungleboek is een verzameling verhalen en gedichten uit 1894 van Rudyard Kipling. Deze verhalen waren eerder los van elkaar gepubliceerd in tijdschriften. Het bekendst zijn de drie verhalen over het mensenkind Mowgli dat in de jungle in India wordt opgevoed door wolven, maar het boek bevat ook andere verhalen met …