Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath— Not the great nor well-bespoke, But the mere uncounted folk Of whose life and death is none Report or lamentation. Lay that earth upon thy heart, And thy sickness shall depart! It shall sweeten and make whole Fevered breath and festered soul; It shall mightily restrain Over-busy hand and brain; it shall ease thy mortal strife 'Gainst the immortal woe of life, Till thyself restored shall prove By what grace the Heavens do move.

These twelve magical stories tell, among other things, how the camel got his hump, the leopard his spots, the elephant his trunk, how the alphabet was made and how a butterfly caused mayhem at the court of Solomon when he stamped.

Product Description: The adventures of Harvey Chaney Jr., an arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks, Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth...read more

Product Description: A short story inspired by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan that follows two British ex-soldiers who set off from 19th century British India in search of adventure and end up as kings of KafiristanNotice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www...read more

Published in 1901, Rudyard Kipling's Kim is portrays the Indian people, culture, and religions during the British rule. The story concerns Kimball O' Hara, orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India. Kim becomes the disciple of a Buddhist who is on a holy journey. Along the way, Kim is recognized by his father's regiment and is recruited by the British Army and thus involves in The Great Game.

Published in 1901, Rudyard Kipling's Kim is portrays the Indian people, culture, and religions during the British rule. The story concerns Kimball O' Hara, orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India. Kim becomes the disciple of a Buddhist who is on a holy journey. Along the way, Kim is recognized by his father's regiment and is recruited by the British Army and thus involves in The Great Game.

Product Description: One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years' service a man is directly or indirectly acquainted with the two or three hundred Civilians in his Province, all the Messes of ten or twelve Regiments and Batteries, and some fifteen hundred other people of the non-official caste...read more

Product Description: Considered by many to be the most popular British writer of the early twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling has left an enduring legacy in the hearts, culture, and history of English literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, and the power of his writing has emanated to this very day...read more

Product Description: Short stories of variable quality make up The Day's Work; it contains some of Kipling's best writing alongside some of his worst. The stories have no feature common to them all; most are set away from India, most have non-human characters - animals or machines are anthropomorphised...read more

Product Description: Un jeune peintre qui a sacrifié sa vie au nom de l'art...Un amour d'enfance qui ressurgit...et la fatalité qui frappe encore. Dans deux mois, Dick sera complètement aveugle ! Avant que la lumière ne s'éteigne à tout jamais, il doit réussir à peindre son ultime chef-d'oeuvre : le visage de la mélancolie...read more

This classic collection of Rudyard Kipling classics consists of a series of children’s stories including, A Matter of Fact, Mowgli's Brothers, The Lost Legion, and Namgay Doola, among others.

Product Description: The Light That Failed is a novel by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India...read more

Here are Kipling's three comic comrades-in-arms -- clowns, very nearly, though these clowns are to be treated with respect. Set in the British Raj at the turn of the twentieth century, their lot it's to be the bane of their commanding officer -- with their drinking and brawling, and despite his best efforts to break up the threesome. When these infantrymen are up to anything, it's no good at all; but you can bet that it's a hoot to hear the tale. These stories are from Kipling's "Gunga Din" period, but they're comic and farcical; great fun, too.

Excerpt: ...us here, we may save Britain. To do that, we must keep the Painted People back. Therefore, I tell you, Parnesius, as a Father, that if your heart is set on service, your place is among men on the Wall - and not with women among the cities."' 'What Wall?' asked Dan and Una at once. 'Father meant the one we call Hadrian's Wall. I'll tell you about it later. It was built long ago, across North Britain, to keep out the Painted People - Picts, you call them. Father had fought in the great Pict War that lasted more than twenty years, and he knew what fighting meant. Theodosius, one of our great Generals, had chased the little beasts back far into the North before I was born. Down at Vectis, of course, we never troubled our heads about them. But when my Father spoke as he did, I kissed his hand, and waited for orders. We British- born Romans know what is due to our parents.' 'If I kissed my Father's hand, he'd laugh,' said Dan. 'Customs change; but if you do not obey your Father, the Gods remember it. You may be quite sure of that. 'After our talk, seeing I was in earnest, the Pater sent me over to Clausentum to learn my foot-drill in a barrack full of foreign Auxiliaries - as unwashed and unshaved a mob of mixed barbarians as ever scrubbed a breastplate. It was your stick in their stomachs and your shield in their faces to push them into any sort of formation. When I had learned my work the Instructor gave me a handful - and they were a handful! - of Gauls and Iberians to polish up till they were sent to their stations up-country. I did my best, and one night a villa in the suburbs caught fire, and I had my handful out and at work before any of the other troops. I noticed a quiet-looking man on the lawn, leaning on a stick. He watched us passing buckets from the pond, and at last he said to me: "Who are you?" "'A probationer, waiting for a command," I answered. I didn't know who he was from Deucalion! "'Born in Britain?" he said. "'Yes, if you were born...

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Product Description: 1918. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Contents: The Disturber of Traffic; A Conference of the Powers; My Lord the Elephant; One View of the Question; The Finest Story in the World; His Private Honor; A Matter of Fact; The Lost Legion; In the Rukh; Brugglesmith; Love-o-Women; The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot; Judson and the Empire; and The Children of the Zodiac...read more

Product Description: Kimball O'Hara, llamado Kim, es un huérfano, hijo de un soldado inglés y una madre pobre de raza blanca. Sobrevive mendigando y haciendo mandados en las calles de Lahore, durante el período de la India colonial. Está tan inmerso en la cultura local, que pocos notan que él es de raza blanca...read more

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author 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. There is evidence that it was written for his daughter Josephine, who died in 1899 aged six, after a rare first edition of the book with a poignant handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the National Trust's Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire in 2010. The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families, and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle."Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time.The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of Mowgli, an abandoned "man cub" who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other four stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is followed by a piece of verse. The Jungle Book, because of its moral tone, came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement. This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities. Akela, the head wolf in The Jungle Book, has become a senior figure in the movement, the name being traditionally adopted by the leader of each Cub Scout pack. Subject:The jungle book by rudyard kipling original is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893. Kipling children 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 animal lived in Vermont. Find out in this Little Golden Book retelling of the classic Disney movie The Jungle Book.. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a novel highly recommended to read. kipling black white is good classic to enjoy reading. Subject:rudyard jungle book books childrens the by kipling animal classic children story mowgli black unabridged original mowglis signet stories hardcover illustrated and novel graphic magical little dover for leather collection harper design board baloo coloring golden tikki on prime rikki kipling's second penguin classics comic wonderful world of reading junior library kids bound manga puffin part paperback uk animals illustration child illustrations over alev croutier kaa tavi originals first edition st

Product Description: Kimball O'Hara, llamado Kim, es un huérfano, hijo de un soldado inglés y una madre pobre de raza blanca. Sobrevive mendigando y haciendo mandados en las calles de Lahore, durante el período de la India colonial. Está tan inmerso en la cultura local, que pocos notan que él es de raza blanca...read more