Rudyard Kipling

The elephant's child -- How the camel got his hump -- How the rhinoceros got his skin -- The beginning of the armadilloes -- How the whale got his throat.

From the author of The Jungle Book comes the tale of one man's life-changing summer on the high seas. At the start of Captains Courageous, one of literature's most beloved stories of the sea, a spoiled rich boy is literally swept away - dashed overboard from an ocean liner. Luckily, young Harvey Cheyne is rescued by a passing fishing vessel. As it turns out, Harvey's apparent misfortune in tumbling from a life of pampered luxury into the humble...

A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.

"La cría humana es mía, totalmente mía. Nadie la matará. Y tú la verás corriendo con nuestra manada, entregada, como los demás, al riesgo de la caza. Y tengo que advertir a su señoría, que al final será esta cría humana quien le cace a usted." Una clásica historia de la búsqueda de uno mismo y la fundación para dos películas de Disney, la más reciente protagonizada por Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley y Benedict Cumberbatch, El libro de la...

Das Dschungelbuch (englischer Originaltitel The Jungle Book) ist eine Sammlung von Erzählungen und Gedichten des britischen Autors Rudyard Kipling. Der erste Band erschien 1894, der zweite 1895 unter dem Titel The Second Jungle Book ("Das zweite Dschungelbuch"); seither werden die Erzählungen der beiden Bände meistens gemeinsam publiziert, oft als The Jungle Books ("Die Dschungelbücher"). Die bekanntesten Erzählungen darin handeln von Mowgli...

"Plain Tales From the Hills" is a classic collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Contained here in this volume are the following tales: Lispeth, Three and-an Extra, Thrown Away, Miss Youghal's Sais, 'Yoked with an Unbeliever', False Dawn, The Rescue of Pluffles, Cupid's Arrows, The Three Musketeers, His Chance in Life, Watches of the Night, The Other Man, Consequences, The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin, The Taking of Lungtungpen, A Germ-Destroyer,...

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.

The further adventures of Mowgli, the man-cub brought up in the Indian jungle by Mother Wolf, who eventually leaves the jungle to live among men.

Mowgli, petit d'homme, est abandonné dans la jungle lors de sa naissance. Recueilli par une meute de loups, il apprend à y vivre, connaît les dangers de la jungle et ses ennemis, surtout le tigre Shere Kan qui veut sa peau. Un jour, il apprend qu'il n'est pas le seul Homme... Il doit alors prendre une décision difficile: rester en milieu connu, avec ceux qui l'ont vu grandir ou rejoindre ceux qui lui ressemblent?

"I found hidden villages where bees, the only things awake, boomed in eighty-foot lindens that overhung grey Norman churches; miraculous brooks diving under stone bridges built for heavier traffic than would ever vex them again; tithe-barns larger than their churches, and an old smithy that cried out aloud how it had once been a hall of the Knights of the Temple. Gypsies I found on a common where ...the gorse, bracken, and heath fought it out together...