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Boris Karloff, Raymond Massey and Christopher Hassall read a selection of Rudyard Kipling's finest short stories and poetry. Also included in this celebration is Kipling himself giving a speech to a group of Canadian authors and reflecting on war.

Just So Stories - Amusing and fanciful answers to questions of how animals obtained their individual characteristics. "How the Alphabet Was Made"; "How the Camel Got His Hump"; How the First Letter Was Written"; "The Butterfly That Stamped"; "The Cat That Walked by Himself"; "The Crab That Played with the Sea"; "The Elephant's Child"; "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangeroo"; "How the Leopard Got His Spots"; "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin"; "How the Whale Got His Throat"; "The Beginning of the Armadillos".

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. The young elephant has an unfortunate encounter with a crocodile, which results in his nose being stretched, which is how he got his trunk.

Jeder kennt die Geschichte des Jungen Mowgli, der von dem Tiger Shir Khan als Säugling verschleppt wird und im indischen Dschungel bei einer Wolfsfamilie aufwächst. Mit Hilfe seiner Freunde, Baloo, dem Bären, Bagheera, dem Panther, und der Schlange Kaa, lernt Mowgli die Gesetze des Dschungels kennen. Schließlich naht der Tag der Abrechnung mit Shir Khan...

"Just So Stories" is a classic of children's literature, and one of Rudyard Kipling's best known books. It was published in 1902, as a collection of the stories he told his daughter Josephine at bedtime; the little girl insisted that the stories be told "just so" or she would wake up and add the missing sentence, eventually making all these stories like charms, effective if untouched.

An enchanting collection of classic stories and rhymes for younger listeners. Warning - you may be tempted to stay up all night listening!

This exciting full-cast presentation is like nothing you've ever heard before! Adventure begins on the sea as a spoiled rich boy falls from an ocean liner. Rescued by fisherman, an exciting journey of discovery begins as the boy sails the open seas, learning about friendship and the rewards of hard work.

Set in the days of the British Raj, Kipling's finest novel is the exciting and touching tale of an Irish orphan-boy who has lived free in the streets of Lahore before setting out, with a Tibetan Lama, on a spiritual quest. Kim later enrols in the Indian Service and simultaneously embarks on an espionage mission of supreme importance.

Welcome to Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Volume Six, part of the world's largest collection of high-quality, classic horror audiobooks. Are you ready for our latest installment of enthralling horror masterpieces? Good, then we'll begin with Doug's well researched and passionate introduction to the authors and stories in this volume. This is closely followed by his literary majesty, Edgar Allen Poe, with the well known classic tale "The Pit and the Pendulum".

Découvrez l'ouvrage original de Rudyard Kipling. Sept récits constituent ce premier livre ; Mowgli est le héros de trois d'entre elles.

A collection of short stories for children.

This collection brings together 17 of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. "The Man Who Would Be King" is the story of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan. Only one of the men returns, and his condition is so bad that the newspaperman-narrator barely recognizes him.

"The Jungle Book" (1894) is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six and a half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont.

A collection of ten classic short stories including "Lost Hearts", "Miss Brill", "The Yellow Paint", "An Encounter", and "The Phantom Coach".

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales featuring the macabre and chilling voices of writers as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, and MR James. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit back and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own.

The Man Who Would Be King. This rich wonderfully written classic features two opportunists who venture into remote Central Asia with the intention of acquiring a country to rule. Their adventures meet with surprising initial success but then.....

Dans l'Inde de la fin du 19ème siècle, un jeune journaliste fait la connaissance de deux aventuriers ratés, Daniel Dravot et de Peachy Carnehan. Ces deux anciens soldats britanniques partent conquérir seuls et armés de quelques fusils, une contrée inexplorée, le Kafiristan. Après un long et périlleux voyage, ils entament leur conquête en se faisant passer pour des fils d'Alexandre le Grand. A la suite d'une coïncidence miraculeuse, Dravot, se voit considéré comme une sorte de Messie, et il est proclamé roi.

L'Enfant d'Eléphant est extrait d'Histoires comme ça, un recueil de nouvelles qui expliquent le pourquoi...

"Des histoires comme ça" sont des histoires destinées aux enfants. Elles font partie des œuvres de Kipling les plus connues. De nombreuses histoires sont adressées à sa "mieux-aimée" car elles furent d'abord écrites pour la fille de Kipling, Joséphine... L'imaginaire côtoie l'insolite, pour le plus grand bonheur des enfants, qui trouveront ici matière à rêver, à penser, à questionner. On apprend enfin pourquoi le chameau n'a qu'une bosse, pourquoi le léopard a des tâches, et bien d'autres inventions poétiques toutes aussi fantaisistes.

Contenu : "Comment la baleine acquit son gosier", "Comment le shameau acquit sa bosse", "Comment le rhinocéros acquit sa peau", "Comment le léopard acquit ses tâches", "L'enfant d'éléphant".