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Rudyard Kiplings "The Eyes of Asia" takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for King and the British Empire in the First World War.First published in 1918, "The Eyes of Asia" contains four letters purporting to be written to relations or friends at home in India by soldiers of the Indian Army (part of the normal British Forces in that country down to 1947) at the time of World War I, 1914-18. They were on active service in Europe and Africa, 1915-18.The articles forming "The Eyes of Asia" appeared in the American Saturday Evening Post in six parts over the month of May and the beginning of June 1917 and were published in book form in 1918."The Eyes of Asia" consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier, which take place in 1915 and 1916. A Retired Gentleman and The Fumes of the Heart are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers, a Rajput and a Sikh, to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories, The Private Account is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front, and the final story, A Trooper of Horse, takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother.

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(Bombay, 1865 - Londres, 1936) Narrador y poeta inglés, controvertido por sus ideas imperialistas y uno de los más grandes cuentistas de la lengua inglesa. Pertenecía a una familia de origen inglés (su padre, John Lockwood Kipling, era pintor y superintendente del Museo de Lahore), y paso en la India los primeros tiempos de su infancia.

Harvey Cheyne es un niño rico de diez años que se aprovecha de su condición en el colegio en el que estudia. Suspendido por tratar de sobornar con dinero a un profesor para que le pusiera un examen mas facil, viaja hacia Londres junto a su padre, mas preocupado de sus negocios que de su hijo.

Rudyard Kipling escribe coplas, versos que riman y repiten hasta sonar como canciones sus historias. El ha sido, en cada ciudad o paisaje que describe, el extranjero distante, distinto, y desde su diferencia construye sus poemas. Nacio, en 1865, ingles en la capital de la India; sera, mas tarde, estudiante que llega de las colonias en Devonshire (Inglaterra), hasta regresar en 1882 a su India natal. Vera Vermont (USA) y Sudafrica antes de comprar casa en Sussex (Inglaterra), donde definitivamente se instala hasta su muerte, en 1936. Esta antologia va precedida de un prologo de T. S. Eliot, lucido y sugestivo, un estudio en el que se desvela la fugura, por lo general ignorada, del Kipling que escribe versos, inseparable del novelista. Kipling es el poeta de la Revolucion Industrial, del moderno orden occidental, en el que se interna tomando como metafora su contrario: la jungla, el orden de la naturaleza y de las pasiones. Ha fabricado versos en los que -involuntariamente en apariencia- puede leerse poesia.

A collection of 100+ Rudyard Kiplings novels, poems and short stories in 15 books. It contains: The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Kim, The Story Of The Gadsby, Plain Tales From The Hills, The Phantom Rickshaw And Other Ghost Stories, The Light That Failed, Many Inventions, "Captains Courageous" : A Story Of The Grand Banks, The Days Work, Stalky & Co., Just So Stories For Little Children, Puck Of Pooks Hill, Rewards And Fairies, Lifes Handicap: Being Stories Of Mine Own People.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 1907, e ricordato per i suoi romanzi piu popolari e famosi come Kim e Il Libro della Giungla. Questo volume raccoglie alcuni fra gli ultimi racconti dello scrittore, poco conosciuti e trascurati, ma in realta molto importantisoprattutto per linfluenza avuta in autori successivi come per esempio Borges. Luomo e la sua esistenza, riappaiono sotto una nuova forma di scrittura, dove la storia non procede a volte in maniera lineare ma in modo ellittico, dove lodio e la fraternita religiosa degli uomini si intrecciano fra loro, in storie a cui fa sempre da sfondo la societa indiana, dove lo scrittore era nato, ed il suo intrecciarsi con la civilta ed i valori occidentali.

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables of India, and they are full of jokes, subtexts, and exotic references. This fully illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.

This is a classic story of friendship between man and beast. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the snake-fighting mongoose, little Toomai and the elephant's secret dance, and Kotick the white seal are all part of Mowgli's extraordinary journey with his animal friends. This title is brilliantly introduced by bestselling author, Christopher Paolini.

Classic / British English (Available March 2008) A family of wolves take a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle? Will the other wolves want him to stay? And will the dangerous tiger Shere Khan catch him?

El poema Carta a un hijo, al que también se conoce como If, escrito en 1910 por Rudyard Kipling, es un poema íntimo y rotundo que nos insta a reflexionar sobre la responsabilidad de nuestros actos y la importancia de mantenernos firmes aun en las circunstancias mas adversas. Mauro Evangelista nos brinda en este album el contrapunto a un texto intemporal a traves de unas imagenes que nos conducen hasta personajes literarios, personajes miticos y lugares comunes que actualizan y amplian el mensaje del autor hasta hacerlo personal y unico.

This book, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels and stories of Rudyard Kipling in the chronological order of their original publication.- Plain Tales from the Hills (a collection of 40 short stories)- Soldiers Three (a collection of 9 short stories)- The Story of the Gadsbys (a collection of 8 short stories)- In Black and White (a collection of 8 short stories)- Under the Deodars (a collection of 8 short stories)- The Phantom Rickshaw and other Tales (a collection of 4 short stories)- Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (a collection of 4 short stories)

Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his own country. When the Lama recruits Kim as a disciple and then funds his education at an English public school an adventure begins that will take the unlikely pair to the Himalayas on a thrilling journey of espionage and enlightenment.