Rudyard Kipling

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Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill

Kipling’s charming Puck of Pook’s Hill takes the listener on a journey through English history with a series of short, fantastical works. When two children happen across an ancient shrine, they unintentionally summon an impish sprite named Puck - also...

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

In a remote part of 19th-century Afghanistan, two British adventurers pursue their ambition to rule an empire. Using betrayal, threats and guns they win the respect of a primitive tribe and become worshipped as gods, until one day they draw blood and...

Christmas Poetry

Christmas Poetry

Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year.For the religious amongst us this annual celebration of the Birth of Christ must seem bitter sweet; it’s acknowledgment by billions of people...

Книга джунглей.

Книга джунглей.

Мы предлагаем слушателям вновь вспомнить захватывающую историю о Маугли, мальчике, воспитанном волками и прочими обитателями джунглей, пережить его близость к миру животных, а также драматические отношения с людьми, к которым он все-таки вынужден...

Le livre de la jungle

Le livre de la jungle

Découvrez l’ouvrage original de Rudyard Kipling. Sept récits constituent ce premier livre ; Mowgli est le héros de trois d’entre elles. Viennent ensuite les aventures de Kotick, le phoque blanc, de Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, la mangouste, de Toomai, le jeune...

Father's Day Poetry

Father's Day Poetry

The role of Fathers has changed much over the course of centuries. Men are now better suited to a role of co-parent in this modern age rather than the stilted, slightly aloof figure of times past. Being a Father is, of course, both a blessing and a...

Rudyard Kipling: A Poetry Selection

Rudyard Kipling: A Poetry Selection

Rudyard Kipling. With our almost religious zeal to categorise and pigeon hole everything it should come as little surprise that one of the poems we learnt at school should so regularly be voted the best ever poem. Whether ‘If..’ deserves that credit...

The Top 50 Poems

The Top 50 Poems

Sometimes we just want the best. But that involves choices, judgements, decisions. And that all depends on our feelings, our mood at the time.Even more so with Poetry. Would we like a little more pathos, or love, or humour with that? Can we only...

The Big Book Of Bedtime Stories

The Big Book Of Bedtime Stories

An enchanting collection of classic stories and rhymes for younger listeners. Warning - you may be tempted to stay up all night listening!"The Land of Storybooks", "Gold Tree and Silver Tree", "The Elephant's Child", "The Owl and the Pussy Cat", "How...

Uncanny Stories

Uncanny Stories

A spine-chilling collection of tales of uncanny happenings, ghostly apparitions, unexplained mysteries, evil deeds, and tragic events. "The Upper Berth" - F. Marion Crawford"Andreas Vasalius the Anatomist" - Petrus Borel"They" - Rudyard Kipling"The...

Abaft The Funnel

Abaft The Funnel

Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas. Thirty one early short stories by the master story teller Kipling. (Summary by David Wales and title page) Author - Rudyard Kipling. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published...

3 Audiobooks Rudyard Kipling

3 Audiobooks Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling has gifted readers with a timeless trove of literary treasures that continue to resonate with audiences of all ages. Among his most beloved works are "Just So Stories," "The Jungle Book," and "American Notes." Each of these books...

Plain Tales from the Hills

Plain Tales from the Hills

Named a "prophet of British imperialism" by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the clearest contemporary eye of any who described the British Raj. According to critic Douglas Kerr: "He is still an author...

The Second Jungle Book

The Second Jungle Book

Kipling shows his love of the sub continent and its people and understanding of their beliefs in these tales. An older Mowgli roams the jungle with his old friends and investigates the ways of his people, a Prime Minister becomes a wandering holy man,...

These are selections of Kipling's writings; some poems, some fiction, some history but all by the master storyteller himself. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' -- William the Conqueror, Part I -- William the Conqueror, Part II -- Wee Willie Winkie -- A matter of fact...

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

This anthology contains many of Kipling’s most famous poems, If, Mandalay, Gunga Din. Though sometimes still regarded as a product of the colonial era, Kipling touches a very popular nerve in Britain’s literary tradition, and is regarded more...

Short Stories About Trickery & Deception

Short Stories About Trickery & Deception

As a general rule we are a trusting lot. You say something and, whilst I might disagree, I believe you are acting in good faith. Of course this may be just the beginning of a ruse. If I trust you I might let down my guard, I might seek to share and to...

Letters of Travel

Letters of Travel

Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stories and the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling (an Englishman born and raised in India) offers an interesting...

Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling fashion) highly moral Anglo-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed the “the Great Game” -– the competition between...

Spooky Poetry. Or things that go bump in the night! Poetry has a way of making even the most difficult of subjects or themes that bit easier to handle. And so it is with spooks and ghouls, ghosts and goblins. In this collection of poems Shakespeare,...

The Jungle Books

The Jungle Books

Kipling’s tales of Mowgli and his exciting life in the Indian jungle have been loved by children and adults alike ever since their publication in 1895. Mowgli the "man-cub" must learn to fend for himself against terrible foes like Shere Khan the...

The Light That Failed

The Light That Failed

This novel, first published in 1890, follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. It was made into a 1916 film with Jose Collins and a 1939 film...

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Five tales which range from the jungles of India to the frozen emptiness of the North… In all of them, Kipling’s extrardinary powers of description and ability to identify with human aspiration and animal survival are vividly shown. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi...

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

"The Jungle Book," published in 1894, is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The tales are fables, featuring animals that possess human characteristics, and they are set in the Indian jungle. The most famous stories within the...

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 double quest. This eventually leads to...

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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Originally written for his young daughter Josephine, who died tragically aged six, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of short stories which were published separately in magazines before being compiled into a book. The stories are in...

Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill

Kipling’s charming Puck of Pook’s Hill takes the listener on a journey through English history with a series of short, fantastical works. When two children happen across an ancient shrine, they unintentionally summon an impish sprite named Puck - also...

Christmas Poetry

Christmas Poetry

Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year.For the religious amongst us this annual celebration of the Birth of Christ must seem bitter sweet; it’s acknowledgment by billions of people...

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

In a remote part of 19th-century Afghanistan, two British adventurers pursue their ambition to rule an empire. Using betrayal, threats and guns they win the respect of a primitive tribe and become worshipped as gods, until one day they draw blood and...

Rudyard Kipling: A Poetry Selection

Rudyard Kipling: A Poetry Selection

Rudyard Kipling. With our almost religious zeal to categorise and pigeon hole everything it should come as little surprise that one of the poems we learnt at school should so regularly be voted the best ever poem. Whether ‘If..’ deserves that credit...

Father's Day Poetry

Father's Day Poetry

The role of Fathers has changed much over the course of centuries. Men are now better suited to a role of co-parent in this modern age rather than the stilted, slightly aloof figure of times past. Being a Father is, of course, both a blessing and a...

The Top 50 Poems

The Top 50 Poems

Sometimes we just want the best. But that involves choices, judgements, decisions. And that all depends on our feelings, our mood at the time.Even more so with Poetry. Would we like a little more pathos, or love, or humour with that? Can we only...

Le livre de la jungle

Le livre de la jungle

Découvrez l’ouvrage original de Rudyard Kipling. Sept récits constituent ce premier livre ; Mowgli est le héros de trois d’entre elles. Viennent ensuite les aventures de Kotick, le phoque blanc, de Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, la mangouste, de Toomai, le jeune...

Книга джунглей.

Книга джунглей.

Мы предлагаем слушателям вновь вспомнить захватывающую историю о Маугли, мальчике, воспитанном волками и прочими обитателями джунглей, пережить его близость к миру животных, а также драматические отношения с людьми, к которым он все-таки вынужден...

Uncanny Stories

Uncanny Stories

A spine-chilling collection of tales of uncanny happenings, ghostly apparitions, unexplained mysteries, evil deeds, and tragic events. "The Upper Berth" - F. Marion Crawford"Andreas Vasalius the Anatomist" - Petrus Borel"They" - Rudyard Kipling"The...

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The Cat That Walked by Himself

The Cat That Walked by Himself

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. When all the other animals become tame, the cat is reluctant to give up his independence. He devises a clever scheme to gain a seat by the fire and a saucer of cream without having to submit to...