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An Almanac of Twelve Sports is first published in late 1897, the included calendar was for 1898 and subsequent editions had a calendar appropriate for the year following publication. Only the month is printed on the same page as the picture. Each months verse is printed on the reverse of the picture of the preceding month, so that it is opposite its own picture when the book is open.

AN HABITATION ENFORCEDTHE RECALLGARMA HOSTAGETHE POWER OF THE DOGTHE MOTHER HIVETHE BEES AND THE FLIESWITH THE NIGHT MAILTHE FOUR ANGELSA DEAL IN COTTONTHE NEW KNIGHTHOODTHE PUZZLER LITTLE FOXESGALLIOS SONGTHE HOUSE SURGEONTHE RABBIS SONG

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.

The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kiplings own house Batemans, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. (Puck, who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England", is better known as a character in William Shakespeares play A Midsummer Nights Dream.) The genres of particular stories range from authentic historical novella (A Centurion of the Thirtieth, On the Great Wall) to childrens fantasy (Dymchurch Flit). Each story is bracketed by a poem which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story.Donald Mackenzie, who wrote the introduction for the Oxford Worlds Classics edition of Puck of Pooks Hill in 1987, has described this book as an example of archaeological imagination that, in fragments, delivers a look at the history of England, climaxing with the signing of Magna Carta.Puck calmly concludes the series of stories: "Weland gave the Sword, The Sword gave the Treasure, and the Treasure gave the Law. Its as natural as an oak growing."

Siempre se ha dicho que, a partir de los cuarenta, el hombre es responsable de su cara. Kipling viene a añadir aquí que también lo es de su biografía. Recordando su aprendizaje de periodista, el autor escribio: Mi jefe me tomo por su cuenta, y durante tres años lo odie. Tenia que domarme, y yo no sabia nada. Ignoro lo que sufrio por causa mia; pero la poca o mucha escrupulosidad que haya llegado a adquirir en mi vida, el habito de procurar siquiera verificar las referencias y cierta maña para no moverme de la mesa de trabajo, se los debo enteramente. Sin duda el lector ha reconocido en estas lineas un resumen de Capitanes intrepidos, una excelente novela de aprendizaje.

Cuesta entender por qué muchos se han resistido a reconocer en Rudyard Kipling un poeta valioso. Además de un maestro de la rima y el ritmo, poseedor de un don especial para la adjetivación precisa, la descripcion condensada y la caracterizacion certera de los personajes que hablan en sus poemas, Kipling es, sobre todo, el creador de un mundo poetico altamente original e inconfundible, en el que se combinan exotismo y autobiografia, retrato y paisaje, fantasia e Historia.Cuesta entender por qué muchos se han resistido a reconocer en Rudyard Kipling un poeta valioso. Además de un maestro de la rima y el ritmo, poseedor de un don especial para la adjetivación precisa, la descripcion condensada y la caracterizacion certera de los personajes que hablan en sus poemas, Kipling es, sobre todo, el creador de un mundo poetico altamente original e inconfundible, en el que se combinan exotismo y autobiografia, retrato y paisaje, fantasia e Historia.

Two children, Dan and Una, acting out their version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", miraculously conjure up Puck himself. Small and as old as time itself, he brings back the past for them to witness. He re-creates a Roman centurion, a Renaissance craftsman and the villages of time gone by.

Das frohliche Menschenkind Mogli wachst mitten im Dschungel in einer Wolfsfamilie auf. Doch als der Tiger Shir Khan Mogli verfolgt, beschlieen die beiden Freunde des Jungen, der schwarze Panther Baghira und der Bar Balu, ihn zu der Menschensiedlung zu bringen. Doch damit ist Mogli uberhaupt nicht einverstanden. Er lauft davon und erlebt dabei viele Abenteuer Moglis Geschichte im Dschungel begeistert seit Jahrzehnten Kinder auf aller Welt. Hier wird sie liebevoll erzahlt und zahlreiche Bilder erganzen dieses Buch zum Film. Ideal zum Vor- und Selberlesen.

Autor de obras tan famosas como «Kim», «Capitanes intrépidos» y «El hombre que pudo reinar», Rudyard Kipling , Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1907, supo siempre hacer del relato breve una estructura l