Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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While performing a scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Una and Dan accidentally summon Puck who enables them to witness tales of English history.

Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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While performing a scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Una and Dan accidentally summon Puck who enables them to witness tales of English history.

Kipling's Children's Literature

Kipling's Children's Literature PDF Author: Sue Walsh
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754655961
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamined due to its categorization as 'children's literature.' Sue Walsh challenges the apparently clear division between 'children's' and 'adult' literature, suggesting new directions for postcolonial and childhood studies and interrogating the way biographical criticism on children's literature in particular has tended to supersede and obstruct other kinds of readings.

Cold Iron

Cold Iron PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781503168138
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Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Cold Iron is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (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. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), the Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If-" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift." Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, 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, 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. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism." Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "He [Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.

Traffics and Discoveries

Traffics and Discoveries PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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The guard-boat lay across the mouth of the bathing-pool her crew idly spanking the water with the flat of their oars. A red-coated militia-man rifle in hand sat at the bows and a petty officer at the stern.

The Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling

The Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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THE YEARS BETWEEN

THE YEARS BETWEEN PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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[Written for the gathering of survivors of the Indian Mutiny, Albert Hall, 1907.] To-day, across our fathers' graves, The astonished years reveal The remnant of that desperate host Which cleansed our East with steel. Hail and farewell! We greet you here, With tears that none will scorn— O Keepers of the House of old, Or ever we were born! One service more we dare to ask— Pray for us, heroes, pray, That when Fate lays on us our task We do not shame the Day!

The Two Jungle Books

The Two Jungle Books PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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A Diversity of Creatures

A Diversity of Creatures PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
ISBN: 9781636372839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A collection of Kipling's strangest tales with almost every one accompanied by a linked poem. As an SF fan I am of course delighted that the very first tale in the collection is science fiction "As Easy as A.B.C." the sequel to his "With the Night Mail" It also includes a depiction of hatred on the home front in "Mary Postgate" and contrasting humour in an extended revenge prank aimed at a whole town "The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat". One exceedingly mad tale made no sense the first three times I read it but became much (but not entirely) clearer when I discovered that the key unwritten word was witchcraft. However I will not give the title of that story so I don't entirely spoil it (Peter Dunn)

The Day's Work

The Day's Work PDF Author: John D. Coates
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Although Kipling has never lost his hold on a large and admiring public, recent years have witnessed an increasing critical interest in his work. This book approaches Kipling as a writer who, from the outset of his career, sensed a potential or actual horror at the heart of things. It examines Kipling's search for meaning, a research pursued on the political, moral, and religious planes, through original and highly sophisticated explorations of history and myth. It presents Kipling as a person who knew and understood his own suffering and used it in his search for strategies to deal with the temptations of pessimism that he had known and also the prevailing temptations in a political and intellectual crisis he felt obliged to address.

Selected Verse

Selected Verse PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509827056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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With subjects as broad as militarism, the British Empire, childhood and death, the Selected Verse of Rudyard Kipling is a treasure trove of the Nobel Prize winner's most striking and moving poetry, dramatic monologues and ballads. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition includes an introduction by Lizzy Welby and the endorsement of the Kipling Society, of which Dr Welby is a Council Member. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.