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Puck, «ese duende maligno y despabilado» de El Sueño de una noche de verano de Shakespeare, un espíritu tan travieso como buen chico, vuelve a la tierra para contarnos la historia real de Inglaterra

Los ooryas se rieron; el montañés avanzó amenazador. El lama, de pronto, elevó la cabeza y su sombrero gigantesco quedó totalmente iluminado por la luz del fuego que Kim acababa de encender...

¡Aquí estamos! -gritaron los dos muchachos al unísono. Oían el ruido de los remos, pero no pudieron ver nada, hasta que el cocinero, brillante de sudor, se acercó a ellos. -¿Qué os ha pasado? -pregun

Ramallo de contos e poemas escritos para ser lidos en voz alta Estas páxinas, cheas de palabras e expresións musicais e marabillosas, teñen como protagonistas a distintas clases de animais e recordan con sinxeleza o encanto e a riqueza do continente indio. Esta version galega conserva a eufonia dos textos e a sonoridade que inevitablemente se perderian nunha traducion estritamente literal. Nesta edicion reproducense as ilustracions para o libro realizadas polo propio Kipling, completando asi unha escolma de contos que, desde a sua aparicion no ano 1902, veñen constituindo unha fonte de ledicia para nenos e adultos.

Rediscover the timeless tales of children's literature in this beautifully designed series from Pavilion. Exquisitely illustrated and published in uniform editions, these are a must for every child's

Joseph Rudyard Kipling, profundo conocedor de la vida y costumbres de la próspera colonia británica, llegó a Londres en 1899 desde India precedido de una fama que iría incrementándose hasta alcanzar el premio Nobel en 1907. Poeta y novelista, su talento despunta en el relato breve, en el que demostro una habilidad especial para narrar con asombrosa viveza y un agudo sentido de la observacion las peripecias de unos personajes siempre enfrentados a su destino. El handicap de la vida (1891) recoge un amplio conjunto de narraciones ambientadas en la India colonial, un universo en el que conviven multitud de religiones, lenguas y razas con su inevitable misterio. Una sucesion gozosa de cuentos entre los que se encuentran algunos de sus relatos mas famosos, como La marca de la bestia, que revela el talento juvenil de Kipling.

This collection opens with The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, the first story Kipling published as a young journalist in india, and ends with an acknowledged masterpiece, The Gardener, written 50 years later in the aftermath of the great war.

En esta obra, Rudyard Kipling recurre a un personaje de Shakespeare, el duende Puck de , para relatar e hilvanar una selección de historias que vivifican fragmentos sustanciales de la historia de Inglaterra.El travieso duende, convertido por Kipling en un excepcional conocedor tanto del mundo magico como de los remotos sucesos de su pais, acompañara a Dan y a Una, dos hermanos deliciosamente naturales y espontaneos, en normandos y sajones, piratas daneses, legionarios romanos, artistas del Renacimiento y prestamistas judios.

« Quoique les mâchoires de Père Loup se fussent refermées complètement sur le dos de l''enfant, pas une dent n''égratigna la peau lorsqu''il le déposa au milieu de ses petits. - Qu''il est mignon ! Q

Under the Deodars is a disturbing, uncomfortable and unsettling read - as Kipling himself said, 'it deals with things that are not pretty and ugliness can hurt'. For here, Kipling takes as his subject matter the life of Englishmen and women in the Indian Subcontinent, and explores the ugly truth of what went on beneath the appealing 'froth' of club life. Instantly rejected by many as being too harsh and too critical, Under the Deodars is in fact a brilliant portrait of Anglo-Indians, and their unforgiving impact upon the provincial society of Simla.

"Kim," by Rudyard Kipling, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes & Noble Classics": New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. "Barnes & Noble Classics "pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Rudyard Kipling has been attacked for championing British imperialism and celebrated for satirizing it. In fact, he did both. Nowhere does he express his own ambivalence more strongly than in "Kim," his rousing adventure novel of a young man of many allegiances. Kimball O''Hara grows up an orphan in the walled city of Lahore, India. Deeply devoted to an old Tibetan lama but involved in a secret mission for the British, Kim struggles to weave the strands of his life into a single pattern. Charged with action and suspense, yet profoundly spiritual, "Kim" vividly expresses thesounds and smells, colors and characters, opulence and squalor of complex, contradictory India under British rule. Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has published forty-three books, including biographies of Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, and George Orwell. He also wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Edith Wharton''s "The House of Mirth,"

Édulcorée dans nos souvenirs depuis la version animée des Studios Walt Disney, l''histoire du livre de la jungle est avant tout le récit d''une initiation à la dure loi de la vie : la cruauté des êtr

Incredibly, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) wrote Plain Tales From The Hills , with their astute and vigorous observations of the British in India before reaching the age of 22! They are presented here in the same order as they appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette for whom he worked as a journalist in the 1880s. Although written over one hundred years ago, Kipling's genius as a storyteller, the raciness of his narrative and the humour and vitality of the characters contribute to ensuring that these stories are as timeless as India itself. This is a marvellous selection of tales, full of fun, passion, pathos and mystery that will catch the imagination of a modern audience as they did when they first appeared in book form in 1888 and made their author famous throughout the world!