Rudyard kipling
21) Verses 1889-1896
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume XI
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling, born 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. "Traffics and Discoveries" is a collection of short stories. Also includes the stories ""The Captive","The Bonds of Discipline",...
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"Rewards and Fairies" is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The book consists of a series of short stories set in historical times with a linking contemporary narrative. Dan and Una are two children, living in the Weald of Sussex in the area of Kipling's own home Bateman's. They have encountered Puck and he magically conjures up real and fictional individuals from Sussex's past to tell the children some aspect of its history...
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France at War' is an extremely interesting collection of writings by the celebrated author, Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in 1915 and gives an excellent insight into the contemporary views of the First World War.
This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one...
25) The Seven Seas
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The 'Seven Seas' is a bitter, disillusioned series of poems centered on Britain's role in colonialism and Empire building. With reverberating lyrics and powerful imagery, Kipling writes of the ruthless means that were often employed to add nations to the glorious Empire, and the subsequent effects upon these colonized nations. Though disturbing and unsettling in theme, Kipling's lyrical dexterity makes these poems strangely compelling reading.
26) Songs from Books
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In this 1912 edition (originally published in 1891), the author has collected all the lyrics and verses used in his books, excepting the Jungle Books and Just So Stories. Included are memorable verses such as "Puck's Song" from Puck, as well as songs from Actions and Reactions, Naulakha, Rewards and Fairies, and other works.
27) Sea Warfare
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These pieces were written as journalism, in response to a request by the Admiralty, as the British public realised that World War I certainly was not going to be 'over by Christmas', and wanted to know what the Navy, the 'silent service', on which so much money had been spent in the decade before the war, was doing. The end of the 'Great War' against Napoleonic France had left Great Britain undoubted mistress of the oceans, and the Royal Navy was...
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The complete horror, dark fantasy, and psychological suspense stories of Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered one of England's greatest writers, but was born in Bombay. He was educated in England and returned to India in 1882, where he began writing fantasy and supernatural stories set
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One New Year's Eve, in India, a group of British friends gets drunk at a club. One of them, Fleete, is so drunk that he desecrates the temple of the Monkey God. They expect lethal retribution, but are only confronted by a leper priest, who bites Fleete as punishment. But when Fleete begins to act strangely, they wonder if their punishment was as mild as it first seemed.
31) Soldier Stories
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Excerpt: "'Mary, Mother av Mercy, fwhat the divil possist us to take an' kape this melancolious counthry? Answer me that, Sorr.' It was Mulvaney who was speaking. The time was one o'clock of a stifling June night, and the place was the main gate of Fort Amara, most desolate and least desirable of all fortresses in India. What I was doing there at that hour is a question which only concerns M'Grath the Sergeant of the Guard, and the men on the gate."...
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This 1895 collection brings together the stories of three previous collections. Some of Kipling's greatest and most famous stories are here, including "The Man Who Would Be King," the autobiographical "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," and of course the title stories, "The Phantom Rickshaw" and "Wee Willie Winkie."
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Excerpt: "After the gloom of grey Atlantic weather, our ship came to America in a flood of winter sunshine that made unaccustomed eyelids blink, and the New Yorker, who is nothing if not modest, said, 'This isn't a sample of our really fine days. Wait until such and such times come, or go to such and a such a quarter of the city.' We were content, and more than content, to drift aimlessly up and down the brilliant streets, wondering a little why the...
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The Story of the Gadsbys is a story by Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published as no. 2 of the Indian Railway Library in 1888. The Story of the Gadsbys is written in dramatic form, consisting of eight short scenes (listed below). This short pamphlet, of 100 pages, was later collected in book form as the second part of Soldiers Three. "Poor Dear Mamma", "The World Without", "The Tents of Kedar", "With any Amazement", "The Garden of Eden", "Fatima",...
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Excerpt: "The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost to top-heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three...
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This 1919 collection of verse, written in the years between the Boer War and World War I, includes one of the author's most famous poems, "The Female of the Species," as well as "'For All We Have and Are,'" "The Choice," "France," "'The City of Brass,'" "The Declaration of London," "Zion," and more.
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Profoundly suspicious of Calcutta's openness to new ideas and values, Kipling turns his attentions to liberalism and policies of native self-government, ridiculing the contribution of the Bengal Legislative Council to the running of the city. The 'ferocious stench' of refuse, bad water, and sewage is taken by Kipling as a metaphor of the corruption of the Council and the city.
38) Abaft the Funnel
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Excerpt: "The measure of a man's popularity is not always-or indeed seldom-the measure of his intrinsic worth. So, when the earlier work of any writer is gathered together in more enduring form, catering to the enthusiasm of his readers in his maturer years, there is always a suspicion that the venture is purely a commercial one, without literary justification. Fortunately these stories of Mr. Kipling's form their own best excuse for this, their first...
39) Soldiers Three
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Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. The current version, dating from 1899 and more fully titled Soldiers Three and other stories, consists of three sections which each had previously received separate publication in 1888; Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris appear only in the...