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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent figure at times violently opposed to the dominant political and literary tendencies of his age. Arranged in chronological order, this diverse selection of his poetry shows the development of Kipling s talent, his deepening maturity and the growing sombreness of his poetic vision. Ranging from early, exhilarating celebrations of British expansion overseas, including Mandalay and Gunga Din , to the dignified and inspirational If - and the later, deeply moving Epitaphs of the War - inspired by the death of Kipling s only son - it clearly illustrates the scope and originality of his work. It also offers a compelling insight into the Empire both at its peak and during its decline in the early years of the twentieth century.

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Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues and extended ballads.He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism, and the British Empire, but an attentive reading of the poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwell s hard-hitting account of Kipling s poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling.

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Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly realized world of the Indian stories that made his name, through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly-wrought subtleties of his later pieces. Including the tale of insanity and empire, The Man Who Would Be King , the high-spirited The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat , the fable of childhood cruelty and revenge Baa Baa, Black Sheep , the menacing psychological study Mary Postgate and the ambiguous portrayal of grief and mourning in The Gardener , here are stories of criminals, ghosts, femmes fatales, madness and murder.

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Delightfully retold in humorous verse, with stunning illustrations throughout, this is a beautiful reworked edition of Rudyard Kipling s children s classic, Just So Stories. A gorgeous gift for imaginative young readers.In this highly illustrated collection meet the cat who walked by himself, discover how the lazy camel got his hump, how the elephant got his long trunk, find out why the rhino has such wrinkly skin and how the whale got his teeny tiny throat. These well known, richly imagined stories tell of how the world came to be as it is. This is a smart, funny and younger approach to Kipling s work, and Just So Stories as you ve never seen them before.Rudyard Kipling s Just So Stories are one of the enduring classics of children s literature and these witty, inventive stories have delighted generations of children. Combining the brilliant rhyming talent of Elli Woollard and beautiful illustrations from the award-winning Marta Altés, Rudyard Kipling s Just So Stories is an enchanting retelling of a much-loved classic for a new generation. A book to truly treasure and one you will want to share.

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An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling s Kim is edited with an introduction by Harish Trivedi, and includes a general preface by Jan Montefiore.Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother, and the lama, an old ascetic priest, are on a quest. Kim was born and raised in India and plays with the slum children as he lives on the streets, but he is white, a sahib, and wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism; while the priest must find redemption from the Wheel of Things. Kim celebrates their friendship and their journeys in a beautiful but hostile environment, capturing the opulence of the exotic landscape and the uneasy presence of the British Raj. Filled with rich description and vivid characters, this beguiling coming of age story is considered to be Kipling s masterpiece. Part of a series of new editions of Kipling s works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a General Preface by Jan Montefiore and an introduction by Harish Trivedi placing the novel in its literary and social context.Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay. In 1882 he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907.If you enjoyed Kim, you might like E.M. Forster s A Passage to India, also available in Penguin Classics. Kipling s last work is ... his best, and not easily comparable with the work of any other man Atlantic

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For fans of all ages, legendary British writer Rudyard Kipling’s complete collection of enchanting fables set in India—the basis of the beloved animated Disney film and a modern cinematic retelling from director Jon Favreau—now available in a deluxe four-color illustrated collectible edition. The Jungle Book features stunning artwork and nine 3-D interactive elements crafted by MinaLima Design, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise and the illustrated classic Peter Pan.Since its publication in 1894, Rudyard Kipling’s beloved masterpiece The Jungle Book has been celebrated by generations of readers. Composed of seven tales, each one accompanied by a poem, The Jungle Book is a coming of age fantasy that introduces a lush, colorful world full of adventure and danger. The first three tales include some of the most charming and unforgettable characters in literature—the man-cub Mowgli, the black panther Bagheera, the wise brown bear Baloo, the ruthless tiger Shere Khan, and the hypnotic python Kaa. The other four tales each tell the story of a different animal, such as the travels of the white seal Kotick; the battle between the courageous mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the deadly cobra Nag; Toomai and the elephant dance; and the camp animals of the queen’s guard.The second volume in Harper Design’s newest series of deluxe reimagined children’s classics, this beautiful unabridged edition takes readers deep into the heart of the Indian jungle with specially commissioned four-color illustrations and nine exclusive interactive features that will delight readers, including a map of the lost Indian city where Mowgli is taken by the monkeys; a trifold detailing the Laws of the Jungle; a spinning dial of the elephant dance; and a map of Kotick’s route to find a new home.Beautifully designed, this keepsake illustrated edition will be treasured by readers of all ages.

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Rudyard Kipling s 1897 book Captains Courageous chronicles the exploits of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the privileged son of a railroad magnate, who is saved from drowning in the North Atlantic by a Portuguese fisherman. The novel was first published in McClure s as a serial in the November 1896 issue, with the final episode appearing in May 1897. The full work was then released that year as a novel, first by Doubleday in the United States and then by Macmillan a month later in the United Kingdom. It is the only book by Kipling that is totally set in North America. Teddy Roosevelt praised the book and Kipling for depicting in the liveliest fashion just what a boy should be and do in his essay What We Can Expect of the American Kid from 1900. The title was originally used by Kipling for a piece about merchants as the new adventurers that appeared in The Times on November 23, 1892. The privileged son of a powerful railroad tycoon in California is Harvey Cheyne Jr. from a transatlantic steamer washed overboard, and the crew of the We re Here saved him. Excellent cod fishing tales that include mention of New England whaling, 19th-century steam, sailing, and the cod fishery.

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The Man Who Would Be King is a captivating novella written by Rudyard Kipling, the renowned British author. Published in 1888, the story follows the adventures of two ex-British soldiers, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, as they set out on a daring quest to become kings of Kafiristan, a remote region in Afghanistan. The novel showcases Kipling s mastery of storytelling, vivid descriptions, and rich character development. The narrative presents a thought-provoking examination of imperialism and its impact on both the colonizers and the colonized. Kipling delves into questions of identity and the inherent flaws of human ambition, ultimately questioning the price one must pay for attempting to transcend one s station. With its compelling plot, evocative imagery, and profound themes, The Man Who Would Be King remains a powerful exploration of human nature and the consequences of unchecked ambition, solidifying Kipling s status as a literary master.

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is perhaps the most controversial major English poetof the last two centuries, not least because of his apparent enthusiasm for the empire. A child of British India, he first became famous for tales of imperial life, notably Kim, the Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads. Kipling wrote verse in every classical form from the epigram to the ode, but his most distinctive gift was for the ballads and narrative poems in which he draws vivid characters in universal situations and articulates profound truths in plain language. Yet he was also a subtle and deeply affecting anatomist of the human heart, with a feeling for the natural world which rivals his younger contemporary, D. H. Lawrence. Shattered by World War I in which he lost his only son, his work darkens and deepens in later years, but never loses its extraordinary vitality.

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling s early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social range. He gained immense popularity, becoming (as these stories indicate) the knowledgeable spokesman for a wide public.Later, although Kipling s right-wing views increasingly incurred hostility, his creativity remained formidable. In this rich collection, we encounter bold realism, poignant nostalgia, dark comedy, the vividly horrific, the exuberantly fanciful and the disturbingly uncanny.

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Kim by Rudyard Kipling He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights ... Kipling s epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, Kim captures the opulence of India s exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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Kipling s best-loved work, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.The story of Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as the bear Baloo, the graceful black panther Bagheera and Shere Khan, the tiger with the blazing eyes. Other animal stories in The Jungle Books range from the dramatic battle between good and evil in Rikki-tikki-tavi to the macabre comedy The Undertakers . With The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling drew on ancient beast fables, Buddhist philosophy and memories of his Anglo-Indian childhood to create a rich, symbolic portrait of man and nature, and an eternal classic of childhood.

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The story of the man-cub Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, guided by his mentors Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and the ancient python Kaa, and who confronts his arch-enemy Shere Khan the tiger, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. Mowgli s adventures are juxtaposed with other animal stories set in the British Empire, ranging from the heroic battle of Rikki-tikki-tavi and the Himalayan pastoral Purun Bhagat to the drama of survival in The White Seal . With The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling drew on ancient beast fables, Buddhist philosophy and memories of his Anglo-Indian upbringing to create a rich, symbolic portrait of man and nature, and an eternal classic of childhood that has had a lasting impact on our imaginations.Part of a series of new editions of Kipling s works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a General Preface by Jan Montefiore and an introduction by Kaori Nagai discussing the many imperial, Indian and literary contexts of The Jungle Books.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There is no harm in a man s cub. Best known for the Mowgli stories, Rudyard Kipling s The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger Shere Kahn, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. Including other stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai, a young elephant handler, Kipling s fables remain as popular today as they ever were.

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Paragon of English virtues or racist imperialist? Andrew Lycett (acclaimed biographer of Ian Fleming) has returned to primary sources to tell the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became Britain s most famous and highest earning author. Among the many new sources, Lycett has discovered previously unpublished letters that illuminate Kipling s crucial years in India, his first girlfriend (the model for Mrs Hauksbee of Plain Tales from the Hills), his parents decision to send him back to England to boarding school; and in his adult life his use of opium, his frustrating times in London and the brief peace he found in America before the devastating loss of both his young daughter and, in the First World War, his son. Lycett also uncovers the extraordinary story of Kipling s great love for Flo Garrard, daughter of the crown jeweller, and unravels the complicated yet enthralling saga of the American family the Balestiers, and of Carrie Balestier who became Kipling s wife. This biography is full of new material on Kipling s financial dealings with Lord Beaverbrook, his friendships with T.E. Lawrence, the painter Edward Burne-Jones and the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (who was his cousin).

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Audiokniha: Dobrodružství ztraceného chlapce, jehož pronásleduje krutý chromý tygr Šer Chán, ale zachrání ho vlci. Získává jméno Mauglí a aby mohl být přijat do vlčí smečky, musí se za něj zaručit ještě další dvě zvířata: starý medvěd Balú, který vyučuje mláďata zákonům divočiny, a černý pardál BaghÍra. Vyprávění sestává z povídek, přičemž Mauglí (Jan Zadražil) je hlavním hrdinou více než poloviny z nich, další dotvářejí obraz džungle i jejích obyvatel a ukazují osudy jednotlivých zvířat v podání herců jako David Novotný, Marek Lambora, Igor Bareš, Jan Vlasák, Marek Holý a Jaromír Nosek. Příběhy napsané v 19. století pro současné děti citlivě převyprávěla Jitka Škápíková. Mauglího příhody byly nesčetněkrát filmově zpracovány, mezi nejznámější patří animovaný muzikál Kniha džunglí (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967), nejnovější je snímek Kniha džunglí (Jon Favreu, 2016). Rudyard Kipling další tituly (1865-1936) Britský spisovatel se narodil v indické Bombaji jako syn malíře pracujícího pro britskou koloniální správu a dětství prožil v Indii, kam se po absolvování anglické internátní školy roku 1881 opět vrátil. Stal se pomocníkem šéfredaktora anglických novin v Láhaur, kde mu otiskli první verše a krátké povídky. Přestože pak v Indii strávil pouhých sedm let, načerpal tu náměty pro svou nejlepší tvorbu. V 80. letech 19. století se definitivně prosadil jako básník a posléze i jako prozaik. Podnikl cesty do Číny, Japonska a Spojených států. Po sňatku s Američankou Caroline Balestierovou roku 1892 žil čtyři roky ve Vermontu v USA, kde napsal své asi nejslavnější dílo Knihy džunglí. Roku 1896 se s manželkou přestěhoval do Londýna, kde vydal své další romány, ale stále psal i poezii. Své čtenáře zaujal především cizokrajnou tematikou, popisem přírody a zvyků domorodců a pozoruhodným uměleckým jazykem. Přelom století znamenal vrchol jeho literárních úspěchů a roku 1907 mu byla udělena Nobelova cena za literaturu. Třebaže dál aktivně psal až do počátku 30. let, nedosáhl již předchozích úspěchů; jeho tvorbu poznamenala i smrt syna Johna během 1. světové války.

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Meet the human boy Mowgli, the sleek panther Bagheera, the sleepy brown bear Baloo, and the conniving tiger Shere Khan in one of the world s best-loved books. A collection of short stories and poems centred on the charming cast, The Jungle Book not only follows Mowgli s journey to learn the Law of the Jungle from his animal companions but also introduces some of its other wonderful inhabitants in stories such as Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and The White Seal .This new edition includes the original illustrations of Rudyard s father J. Lockwood Kipling as well as an afterword by writer and editor David Stuart Davies.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector s Library are books to love and treasure.

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century.Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption from the Wheel of Life . Kim becomes involved in the Great Game :, undertaking espionage for the British rulers.This engrossing and moving novel, with its diversity of memorable characters, offers many insights into political, religious and social tensions.

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This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Mowgli s life in the Jungle, his battle with Shere Khan, and fascinating details about learning to live with humans once more. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver s Travels, The Secret Garden, Oliver Twist, Treasure Island, A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers, Heidi and The Wind in the Willows.

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These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are.Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant s Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos.Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound.

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Throughout his life Rudyard Kipling was fond of dogs, and while they featured prominently in early tales such as â ˜The Dog Herveyâ ™ and â ˜Garm â “ a Hostageâ ™, he later came up with the innovative idea of writing a story from the perspective of a dog, resulting in the hugely successful â ˜Thy Servant a Dogâ ™, narrated by an Aberdeen terrier named Boots.This collection, published in the authorâ ™s lifetime, gathers Kiplingâ ™s dog stories written throughout his career, providing a warm tribute to manâ ™s best friend and showcasing the lively storytelling talents of one of Britainâ ™s most enduringly popular writers.

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Rudyard Kipling s classic story The Jungle Book is brought to life in this beautiful hardback edition with full-colour illustrations and stencilled page edges.Follow Mowgli as he embarks on a series of incredible adventures and meets a cast of unforgettable characters along the way, such as Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Shere Khan the tiger. This beautiful book features striking new full-colour paintings by talented Croatian illustrator Seb Camagajevac. It is sure to enchant young readers aged 8+.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Deluxe Children s Classics are exquisitely designed hardcover editions of classic children s literature, beautifully presented with full-colour illustrations, stencilled page-edges, and decorative endpapers. Together, they make a wonderful entryway into these best-loved classics that children can treasure forever.

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Showcasing the creative power of one of the most outstanding English Metaphysical Poets, the Penguin Classics edition of John Donne s Selected Poems includes an introduction and notes by Ilona Bell.Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne was also among the most intriguing figures of the Renaissance. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Selected Poems reflects this wide diversity, and includes his youthful Songs and Sonnets, epigrams, elegies, letters, satires, and the profoundly moving Divine Poems composed towards the end of his life. From joyful poems such as The Flea , which transforms the image of a louse into something marvellous, to the intimate and intense Holy Sonnets, Donne breathed new vigour into poetry by drawing lucid and often startling metaphors from the world in which he lived. His poems remain among the most passionate, profound and spiritual in the English language.Ilona Bell s introduction considers Donne s life, faith and influence. This edition also includes detailed notes and a further reading list.John Donne (1572-1631) was born into a family of devout Catholics. He studied at Oxford University, travelled on the continent, and then studied law at Lincoln s Inn. In the early 1600s Donne became a Member of Parliament and Justice of the Peace, obtaining temporary positions and patronage from a number of aristocrats who are the subjects of his poems. He was ordained as an Anglican minister in 1615, and in 1621 was made Dean of St. Paul s Cathedral, a position he held until his death.If you enjoyed Donne s Selected Poems, you might enjoy John Milton s Paradise Lost, also available in Penguin Classics.

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The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling s philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther.The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling s abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the `Law . ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Kim (1901) is one of Kipling s masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations â “ a drunken Irish soldier waking up to find himself worshipped as a god in the Indian holy city of Benares, a monkey let loose in an English village â “ and from lampooning the attitudes and discourses of the time.While presenting many aspects which will be familiar to Kipling readers â “ rollicking adventures, exotic locales and an interest in the animal world â “ these Humorous Tales explore the more light-hearted and amusing side to the great masterâ ™s work.

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New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aimed at presenting the second half of his career, from Seeing Things onwards , as he foresaw it.Although he was unable to complete a edition/selection, he left behind selections that have been followed here. New Selected Poems 1988-2013 reprints the author s chosen poems from his later years, beginning with his ground-breaking volume Seeing Things (1991), his two Whitbread Books of the Year, The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999), and his multi-nominated, prize-winning volumes, Electric Light (2001), District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010). The edition concludes with two posthumously published works.

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Although Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems, only a handful were ever published in her lifetime, and those anonymously. Today, she is recognized as one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, one whose unconventional use of language and rhyme anticipated the break with tradition of much modern poetry written after it. nbsp;The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson collects more than 150 of Dickinson s brief but memorable poems. Bursting with insights about life, love, nature, death, and immortality, these poems are among the best loved and most reprinted in English literature. nbsp;The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson is one of Barnes amp; Noble s Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world s greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging.

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W.B. Yeats s Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics.Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W.B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century. This selection of Yeats s work includes the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin and a number of lyrics from Yeats s work as poetic dramatist. This edition breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant variants, so that Yeats s struggle to revise his poetry can be experienced with unusual immediacy. It also includes explanatory and textual notes for each poem.W B Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the sedentary toil of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939.If you enjoyed Selected Poems, you might like The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, also available in Penguin Classics. A compelling poetic presence ... together with Joyce, Yeats made modern Irish poetry possible Timothy Webb.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.How did the leopard get its spots? Why do the tides ebb and flow? How did the elephant get its trunk? And how was the alphabet made?Rudyard Kiplingâ ™s classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal- and humankind in a fun, eloquent and magical way â “ for children and adults alike. Kiplingâ ™s beautifully imaginative answers echo the animal fables he heard during his childhood in India, paired with the folk tales he collected throughout his life.Kiplingâ ™s enjoyment in playing with language, as well as his own delight in fatherhood, makes these stories a joy to read aloud, and children will request these tales as bedtime stories again and again. However, adults will also revel in Kiplingâ ™s fanciful storytelling and gift for language, as every reading uncovers a new joke, subtext or fascinating embellishment. From the author of â ˜The Jungle Bookâ ™ and â ˜Kimâ ™, â ˜Just So Storiesâ ™ is the newest addition to the available canon of Kiplingâ ™s work available in the handy format of Collins Classics!

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Jedinečný povídkový soubor Rudyarda Kiplinga, kterého u nás proslavila především jeho Kniha džunglí, otevírá před čtenářem tajemný svět zednářského prostředí, jehož byl Kipling po celý dospělý život součástí... Ve svých povídkách inspirovaným prostředím a hodnotami svobodného zednářství se autor obrací k filosofickým tématům, zabíhá do prostředí literárních reminiscencí, odkrývá svět tajemna a spirituality, obrací se k tématu smrti a lidské konečnosti - a to zejména v povídkách časově zasazených do první světové války. Zvláště toto téma je Kiplingovi niterně blízké a autor se jeho prostřednictvím vyrovnává i s vlastní bolestnou ztrátou, se smrtí svého syna, který v mladém věku zahynul na bojišti světové války. Kniha vychází v českém vydání teprve podruhé a to po více než pětaosmdesáti letech.

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Audiokniha: Bajky i nebajky byly poprvé publikovány v roce 1902 a už když je Kipling psal pro svou tehdy nejstarší dceru, zamýšlel je k hlasitému předčítání. Jde o hravé a vynalézavé pohádky, které krásným způsobem objasňují například původ skvrn u leopardů nebo jak sloni přišli k chobotům. Kratičké exotické příběhy plné slovních hříček nás zavedou do afrického pralesa, k jihoamerické Amazonce a nebo až do dalekého orientu.

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Imaginative and funny, Kipling #39;s collection of fantastical stories are loved by children around the world. With an introduction by Neil Philip and beautifully illustrated by Isabelle Brent’s fine gold paintings, this enchanting edition will continue to delight a new generation of readers

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Among the best loved of all classics for children are the tales of Mowgli, the boy who learned the law of the jungle as he grew up among a pack of wolves in India s Seeonee Hills. First published in 1894, the book imagines a child living and flourishing in a community of animals - an idea that perhaps had its origin in Kipling s unhappy childhood. His stories are not animal stories in the realistic sense; they are wonderful, beautiful fairy tales, wrote Ernest Thompson Seton, the great Canadian naturalist. Kurt Wiese s illustrations, commissoned by the American firm of Doubleday in 1932, have never appeared in Britain before. An artist with a particular interest in animals and an amazing visual memory, he remembered all he had observed on his travels in the Far East during the early 1900s, first as a salesman in China and then as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese.

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A short story originally published as part of The Jungle Book. When a family moves to India and rescues a half-drowned mongoose called Rikki-tikki-tavi, they grow very fond of the cheeky fellow and soon he runs in and out of the house as much as he pleases. The happy mongoose eats at the table with the mother and father, and sleeps in the nursery with their little boy, Teddy.But the family do not realise that evil lives in the bushes by their home â “ a pair of king cobras, who are plotting to kill the whole family so they can rule the garden!Only Rikki-tikki-tavi can save the family from certain death, but is he brave and strong enough to fight both of them alone? Rikki-tikki-tavi was originally published as part of The Jungle Book in 1894. In this edition, Kipling s story is complete and unabridged.With atmospheric illustrations from the award-winning artist, Robert Ingpen. Ingpen s drawings are utterly compelling â “ Michael Morpurgo

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One hundred years after his birth, W. S. Graham s words seem more awake than ever. His subtle exploration of the paradoxes of language, his passionate conviction of the importance of art and the love he expresses for the people and landscapes of his native Clydeside and adopted home of Cornwall attract more readers each year. In startlingly original poems, he celebrates family and friendship and probes the limits of our understanding of the world and our place in it. Graham s New Collected Poems (2004) marked a crucial point in the growth of his reputation, bringing together for the first time all the poems of his seven collections as well as some of the unpublished material that had come to light since his death in 1986. Now, as we honour his centenary, this New Selected Poems presents his best and most characteristic: from his epic seafaring masterpiece The Nightfishing to the quirky metaphysics of Implements in their Places , as well as a selection of his early neo-romantic poems, which Graham himself believed were essential to a full understanding of his oeuvre, and some remarkable uncollected work. There is no better way to make the acquaintance of one of the greatest British poets of the twentieth century.

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Kathleen Jamieâ ™s Selected Poems gathers together some of the finest work by one of the foremost poets currently writing in English. Although Jamie is perhaps best known for her writing on nature, landscape, and place, Selected Poems shows the full and remarkably diverse range of her work â “ and why many regard her work as crucially relevant to our troubled age. No poet currently writing has a keener eye or ear; no poet has paid more careful attention to the other consciousnesses with whom we share the planet â “ and no poet has Jamieâ ™s almost miraculous ability to show us just how the world might look when the human eye ceases to gaze on it. This exceptional collection of poetry, spanning several decades, allows readers to chart the development of one of our most important contemporary talents, and serves as perfect introduction to her work.

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A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionized poetry. Part of the Macmillan Collector s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.This edition has an introduction by Peter Harness. Selected Poems brings together some of Wordsworth s most acclaimed and influential works, including an extract from his magnus opus, The Prelude, alongside shorter poems such as I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud , To a Skylark and Tintern Abbey . Wordsworth s poems, often written at his home in Grasmere in the beautiful English Lake District, are lyrical evocations of nature and of spirituality.They have a force and clarity of language akin to everyday speech which was truly groundbreaking.

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Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet s first eight books.Mary Oliver s perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. Do you love this world? she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. Do you cherish your humble and silky life? She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it s done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive. She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world as if for the second time/the way it really is. Oliver s passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

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New And Selected Poems brings together a quarter of a century of exceptional writing.Julian Stannard started his career as a writer in the Italian port city of Genoa. He has written at length about Liguria and Italy in general. His work has been translated into Italian and he finds his place in a rich Anglo-Ligurian tradition. This gathering of poems from many collections infuses his love of Italy with a clear-eyed view of modern Britain.These are poems which can wrong foot and amaze. His satirical appetite draws on Rabelais, Gogol, Swift, and Lear. Stannard ultimately creates an unmistakable voice â “ the commonplace is made strange and yet even stranger still.2010 Winner of the International Troubadour Prize 2024 â “ Awarded the Lerici Shelley Prize

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Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the way. God s Gift Women took the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997, Landing Light won it again in 2003 and the Whitbread Award besides, and Rain (2009), his most recent collection, won the Queen s Gold Medal for Poetry. This selection, drawn from twenty years of work, is made by the author himself and includes not only those poems from his four single volumes, but his thrilling and original adaptations of the poems of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. For any readers unfamiliar with Don Paterson s work, this Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to this most captivating of writers; and for fans, an essential gathering from a master craftsman.

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Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. The brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched with luminous English versions rendered by a remarkable cast of translators, among them W.S. Merwin, John Updike, Robert Fitzgerald, Mark Strand and Alastair Reid.

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Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, his poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. He strives constantly to interrogate the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of expressing the everyday in poetry.This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke s poetic development. It contains the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, selected poems from The Book of Images, New Poems, and earlier volumes, and from the uncollected poetry 1906-26. The translations are accurate, sensitive, and nuanced, and are accompanied by an introduction and notes that elucidate Rilke s poetic practice and his central role in modern poetry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a consummate and resilient artist. Demonstrating the wide range of Derek Mahon s verse, from the early lyricism to a more expansive middle period ( New York Time , Decadence ) and the flowering of his late style, it includes recent, uncollected work and culminates in the generous, far-reaching reverie Dreams of a Summer Night .

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An essential selection from the range and bulk of Robert Graves s poetry, edited by Ulster poet Michael Longley. This edition restores Graves to view as a major twentieth century poet, and demonstrates his manifold achievement as war poet, as love poet, and as - in the round - a secular visionary whose poems are inimitable, eccentric marvels - some of which are extraordinary, many are masterly, all are like nothing else ever written (Randall Jarrell).This edition of Robert Graves s poems is scrupulously selected from across the full range of his lifetime s verse. It opens with an illuminating introduction in which Longley makes a persuasive case for the importance of this remarkable poet.

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Thom Gunn has been described as â ˜one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-centuryâ ™ (TLS). This Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunnâ ™s inimitable career. â ˜The poetry of Thom Gunn was much admired in his lifetime, and at the same time often misunderstood and underestimated. The scale of his achievement, and its uniqueness â “ a masterful Elizabethan lyric poet writing in the second half of the twentieth century â “ is just now becoming properly appreciated. Anonymous in voice, even in the service of the most intimate subject matter, acute in observation, particularly the urban experience, with San Francisco the principal site, Gunn is not merely the poet of the druggy â ™60s in California or the plague of the AIDS epidemic, but of the deeper-running themes, shared by Shakespeare, Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams and all his greatest exemplars, of the artistâ ™s moral and imaginative engagement with the world as it actually is, in the broadest possible sense, not as contemporary fashion might have it be. Which strikes me, who knew and loved the man and poet, as a kind of heroism.â ™ August Kleinzahlerâ ˜Thom Gunn smuggled the lyric tradition out of post-war Britain, and gave it cool, gracious renaissance in California. His poetry evokes the wild life of the body with madrigal-like elegance.â ™ Fiona Sampsonâ ˜Gunnâ ™s work illustrates with unusual clarity some of the debates poetry in English has pursued in [the twentieth] century â “ form versus improvisation, diction versus talk, the American way versus the English tradition, even, at times, authenticity versus art. To contain these contradictory impulses and . . . to have generated a body of work which anybody wanting to understand the period and identify some of its best poems will find essential reading â “ this is quite an achievement.â ™ Sean Oâ ™Brien

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Edited and Translated by Alexandra Büchler. A book of poems by Katerina Rudcenková selected from her four poetry books by the editor/translator Alexandra Büchler who will also write an introduction.

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Get exam-ready with the SnapRevise Selected Poems (Emily Dickinson) Text Guide! Featuring detailed poem analysis, key themes, a comprehensive quote bank, vocabulary highlights, and sample essays with commentary, this guide gives you the tools to understand Dickinson s poetry and write confident, top-scoring essays.

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The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or late;They cannot choose. Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. A journalist, essayist and critic for many years, he was encouraged to write verse by his friend Robert Frost. He produced a late outburst of poetry of extraordinary beauty and mystery about the subjects closest to his heart: rural England and its inhabitants, landscape, atmosphere, transience, endurance and death. By 1917, when he was killed on the Western Front, he had earned his place as one of England s most valued poets. This selection brings together his finest verse with his most vivid prose writings on the countryside. The father of us all Ted Hughes Edited by David Wright With a Foreword by Robert Macfarlane, taken from The Old Ways

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A collection of new and selected poems about life, love, and growing older.

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