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(0)Rudyard Kipling
Inspired by the bedtime stories Rudyard Kipling told his own daughter, Josephine, the charming tales in Just So Stories, including “How the Leopard Got His Spots” and “How the Camel Got His Hump,” attempt to answer the many questions children have about animals.
“Children...
Debits and Credits is a collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling, a British writer who wrote extensively about British colonialism in India and Burma. In 1907, he became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The collection was first published in 1926 and includes bitter and bleak stories about subjects such as adultery, war, death, disease, and the passage of
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"In the spring of the Paris Exhibition of 1878 my father was in charge of the Indian Section of Arts and Manufactures there, and it was his duty to arrange them as they arrived. He promised me, then twelve or thirteen years old, that I should accompany him to Paris on condition that I gave no trouble. The democracy of an English School had made that easy."
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"There was much destroyer-work in the Battle of Jutland.The actual battle field may not have been more than twenty thousand square miles, but the incidental patrols,from first to last, must have covered many times that area. Doubtless the next generation will comb out every detail of it.All we need remember is there were many squadrons of battleships and cruisers engaged over the face of the North Sea,and that they were accompanied
...13) A Book of Words
Selections from speeches and addresses delivered by Rudyard Kipling between 1906 and 1927.
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"The motives that swayed the characters were beyond their comprehension; the fates that shifted them were gods they had never met; the sidelights Mrs. Cloke threw on act and incident were more amazing than anything in the record. Therefore the Chapins listened delightedly, and blessed Mrs. Shonts."But why--why--why--did So-and-so do so-and-so?" Sophie would demand from her seat by the pothook; and Mrs. Cloke would
...Among the Railway Folk is a detailed description of day-to-day life on a narrow guage steam powered Indian Railway circa 1890. It includes stories of the shops (located on "Steam Street"), working hours, how the engines were named, the 180 item checklist used when they shopped, and engineers' working conditions. (from Google Books)
16) France at War
In 1915, in the second year of the Great War, Kipling made a tour as a journalist on the front of some of the French armed forces. His report of what he had seen of the military activity was published in six articles in the Daily Telegraph, in England, and in the New York Sun.