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How the Camel Got His Hump” - is a fascinating fairy-tale by the incomparable English writer Rudyard Kipling about the way one lazy and sniffy camel refused to help the other animals. He was punished for that: a magic gin awarded him with a huge hump for the wild beast to be able to work continuously.
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From the author of The Jungle Book comes a magical fantasy story, rich in historical detail and filled with intrigue and excitementUna and Dan, reciting Shakespeare on a summer's evening in rural Sussex, unwittingly summon the elf Puck. They are taken on a fantastic journey through Britain's past, their magical companion plucking from history an array of fascinating characters for them to meet: Parnesius, a Roman centurion who manned Hadrian's wall;...
4) Mowgli
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'Mowgli’ is a legendary collection of stories by the world-famous English writer and poet Joseph Rudyard Kipling (Eng. Joseph Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936). This is an unbelievable story of the human child, who was, found in jungles and reared, up by the wolves. The baby grows in the pack and learns to survive in the conditions of the wild nature, and his devoted friends help him in doing that, they are, the bear Baloo, the panther Bagheera and the...
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Raised by a pack of wolves, the little boy known as Mowgli forms the human heart of an animal community in the Indian wilderness. These selections from The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Many Inventions offer a chronological presentation of every episode from Rudyard Kipling's beloved tales of a feral child. This edition of the stories, all except one of which were originally published in magazines in 1893 and 1894, includes the charming...
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The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli...
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"The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines, often under different titles."--Provided by Amazon.
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Das Dschungelbuch:
Moglis Brüder
Jagdgesang des Sioni-Rudels
Kaas Jagdtanz
Wanderlied des Affenvolkes
"Tiger-Tiger!"
Moglis Siegeslied
Die weiße Robbe
Lukannon
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Darsies Siegesgesang
Toomai, der Liebling der Elefanten
Schiwa und die Heuschrecke
Das neue Dschungelbuch:
Wie Angst kam
Das Gesetz der Dschungel
Das Wunder des Purun Baghat
Ein Sang des Kabir
Die Dschungel los!
Moglis Gesang wider die Menschen
Die Leichenbestatter
Lied...
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The Boys' Adventure Megapack collects 20 great adventure stories for boys, from classics like "The Call of the Wild" to war stories like the adventures of Dave Dawson, from science fiction like Tom Swift, Jr. to historical fiction like Tarzan of the Apes and The Count of Monte Cristo. Rollicking adventure stories for the young and young at heart!
Included are:
THE CALL OF THE WILD, by Jack London
TREASURE ISLAND, by Robert Louis Stevenson
KIDNAPPED,...
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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
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Novels:
The Light That Failed
Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
Kim
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
Stalky and Co.
Short Story Collections:
The City of Dreadful Night
Plain Tales from the Hills
Soldier's Three (The Story of the Gadsbys)
Soldier's Three - Part II
The Phantom...
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Eran las siete de la tarde y Papá Lobo se estaba preparando para la caza nocturna con su manada, cuando Tabaqui, el chacal, se asomó a la guarida para anunciarle que Shere Khan, el tigre cojo que vivía cerca del río Waingunga, había decidido entrar en su territorio de caza.
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por magníficas ilustraciones de artistas...
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The toast of literary London at age 21, Rudyard Kipling won numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. When a spoiled millionaire's son falls overboard from a luxury liner and is rescued by a fishing schooner, he learns the true value of honesty, courage, and hard work. Over 4 million Tor Classics have been sold since 1986. Unabridged edition.
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. In this companion to Volume I, published in fall 2013, acclaimed children's book illustrator Ian Wallace once again reinterprets the famous tales with luminous art, bringing Kipling to a new generation of young readers. Many of the tales are origin stories, explaining, for example, how an animal came to be, or the how the alphabet and writing began....
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. Now Ian Wallace, one of Canada's most accomplished children's book illustrators, reinterprets the famous tales with his vibrant art, bringing Kipling to a whole new generation of young readers. Kipling wrote the stories for his young daughter, who would only sleep if they were told "just so." The first edition was published in Great Britain in 1902,...
19) Rikki-tikki-tavi
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A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.
20) Animal Stories
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Animal Stories – by Rudyard Kipling features some of the best-loved animal tales of all time. "The Camel's Hump," "The Cat That Walked By Himself" and "The White Seal" are just some of the enchanting tales collected together in Animal Stories, which includes that most remarkable and endearing creation "Rikki-tikki-tavi." Originally intended for children, these imaginative and inspired writings are just as suitable for adults and will delight readers...
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