Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling's thrilling science fiction novella With the Night Mail, follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather. Meanwhile, a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control enforces a rigid system of command and control in the skies and in world affairs, too.

In this retelling of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale, a leopard finds a way to hide when the Ethiopian covers him with spots. Told in graphic novel format.

When a camel refuses to do his share of work, a djinn punishes him by giving him a hump in this graphic retelling of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale.

Travel with Kipling through India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton (now Guangzhou), Japan, and BurmaRudyard Kipling spent many years abroad and his relationship with India is explored in several of his works, both fiction and non-fiction. After leaving school, Kipling was sent to Lahore to work at a local newspaper. He would go on, a few years later, to take up a post at the Pioneer in Allahabad. Kipling said that only a few hours after arriving in India...

"The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition" is an extensive collection that showcases the early works of the celebrated British author, Rudyard Kipling. Best known for iconic creations like "The Jungle Book," "Kim," and the "Just So Stories," Kipling's broader oeuvre, often overshadowed, is rich with detailed depictions of colonial India and acute observations of the British Empire's complex social and political fabric. This anthology...

Excerpt: "It is narrated (and God knows best the true state of the case) by Abu Ali Jafir Bin Yakub-ulisfahani that when, in His determinate Will, The Benefactor had decided to create the Greatest Substitute (Adam), He despatched, as is known, the faithful and the excellent Archangel Jibrail to gather from Earth clays, loams, and sands endowed with various colours and attributes, necessary for the substance of our pure Forefather's body. Receiving...

Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered one of England's greatest writers, but was born in Bombay. He was educated in England, but returned to India in 1882, where he began writing fantasy and supernatural stories set in his native continent: "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes,"...

This incredible story revolves around an amateur Regular battalion on overseas service brigaded with a Highland Regiment and a Gurkha Regiment in Afghanistan. It concerns the humiliation of a battle almost lost rather than the glory of a battle won, unlike Kipling's other stories.

A fine collection of classic Mystery and Detective stories. Contents: Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story; The Sending of Dana Da; In the House of Suddhoo; His Wedded Wife. A. Conan Doyle: A Case of Identity; A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red Headed League. Egerton Castle: The Baron's Quarry Stanley J. Weyman: The Fowl in the Pot. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion on the Links. Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman; The First Narrative; The Second Narrative;...