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Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. The stickly prickly hedgehog and the slow solid tortoise devise an exercise regime which will enable them to avoid becoming lunch for the painted jaguar. The effects surprise everyone, especially the painted jaguar.

A splendid collection of seafarers' tales. "Choice Spirits", by W. W. Jacobs; "A Descent into the Maelström", by Edgar Allan Poe; "Pickled Herring", by W. W. Jacobs; "The Secret Sharer", by Joseph Conrad; "Mixed Relations", by W. W. Jacobs; "The Upper Berth", by F. Marion Crawford; "The Finest Story in the World", by Rudyard Kipling; and many more.

Ausgesetzt im indischen Dschungel wird der Menschenjunge Mogli von Wölfen großgezogen. Mit seinen Freunden, dem Panther Baghira und dem Bären Balu, erlebt er fantastische Abenteuer: Er wird von Affen entführt, begegnet der Schlange Kaa und stellt sich dem Tiger Schir Khan. Doch als Mogli schließlich in die Welt der Menschen zurückkehrt, ahnt er, dass ihm das größte Abenteuer seines Lebens noch bevorsteht.

Le avventure di Mowgli, il ragazzino cresciuto nella giungla in mezzo ai lupi, del simpatico orso Baloo, della temibile tigre Shere Khan e di altri animali, continuano ad affascinare grandi e piccini. Un classico della letteratura che racconta con grande poesia un mondo selvaggio e allo stesso tempo tenerissimo, dove si diventa grandi apprendendo i valori dell'amicizia, del coraggio e della lealtà.

When Kim O'Hara's Irish parents die, he is left to raise himself on the streets of Lahore where he scrapes a living. After being recognized by an acquaintance of his father, Kim is sent to an English school to learn espionage, and his education is paid for by an old Tibetan priest. After graduating the two are reunited and two roam India in search of the River of the Arrow, which will wash away all sin. Kim must find a way of reconciling his status as both a sahib (white European) and a chela (disciple).

Written by Rudyard Kipling, the popular British Victorian writer, these origin stories are fantasized tales written with a delightful sense of whimsy that charms adults and children alike. These excellent readings by Ghizela Rowe & TimGraham make it abundantly clear why they have become such special classics that continue to tantalize and excite the imagination.

A shipboard quarrel between Nurkeed and Pambe Serang leads to a lingering grudge and a terrible revenge. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children.

"They", published in 1905, is a somber short story that recalls a tragedy of Kipling's own life - the sudden death of his daughter, Josephine.

Dark offers chilling stories about the things that scare us the most: murder, hauntings, insanity, and our own vulnerability. Examined through the eyes of some of the world's most gifted writers, we feel the malice of serial murderers, the cold evil of the undead, the unreasoning hatred of the insane, and, most of all, the incomprehensible suffering of their victims.

The Rhinoceros was not always all wrinkly as he is today. In fact he was a rather smooth but bad mannered beast. His bad manners, in fact, are what got him into trouble. When you steal something that belongs to the Parsee-man, you could be in a heap of trouble. Sit back and listen as Phillip J. Mather masterfully tells the Rudyard Kipling tale of How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.

An entertaining collection of fairytales for bedtime.

This short story by Kipling of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan, is read by David Philo.

Der Passagier eines kleinen Frachtdampfers erlebt 1925 ein Seebeben und das Auftauchen eines Meerungeheuers, der Journalist Keller jedoch ist der Meinung, dass ein uraltes kosmisches Monster die Erde heimsucht. Professor Angell wird von einer schwarz gekleideten Gestalt gestoßen und stirbt. Sein Neffe Francis Thurston soll den Nachlass ordnen und findet eine Kiste mit kryptischen Aufzeichnungen. Für den Journalisten Keller beginnt der Wahnsinn, als er der Urenkelin von Conrad Zuyland begegnet, dem Mann, der von dem rätselhaften Seebeben berichtete.

This is the first story of The Jungle Book, in which the reader is introduced to Mowgli, the jungle boy, and his animal friends.

Doses of concentrated thrills and pure, raw excitement are delivered directly on the heels of the most explosive musical theme in radio - a crashing rendition of Mussorgsky's "Night On Bald Mountain". Produced and directed by William N. Robson, Norman MacDonnell, and Antony Ellis - and featuring stories by Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, and more - Escape is capable of chilling spines as expertly as it accelerates heartbeats.

A classic fable from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, read by Johnny Morris. Have you ever wondered how and why the animals came to be as they are? In these magical tales, drawn from stories he heard as a child in India as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world, Rudyard Kipling gives some wonderfully imaginative explanations.

Sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories.

Ochen'-ochen' davno na svete zhil pervobytnyj chelovek. Zhil on v prostoj peshhere, ne nosil pochti nikakoj odezhdy, ne umel ni chitat', ni pisat', da emu sovsem i ne hotelos' uchit'sja chitat' ili pisat'. Chelovek jetot ne chuvstvoval sebja sovershenno schastlivym tol'ko v to vremja, kogda on byval goloden. Zvali ego, moja ljubimaja, Tegumaj Bopsulaj, i jeto imja znachilo: "chelovek, kotoryj ne speshit". No my s toboj budem ego zvat' prosto Tegumaj; tak koroche.

Rudyard Kipling’s story set in 1880’s India recounts the story of Dr. Heatherlegh’s patient, Jack Pansay, after a failed romance and slow decline of the woman as she slowly and pitiably fades in sadness to her death while he falls deeply in love with another woman. Yet in the time following this, Pansay is increasingly haunted by Agnes Keith-Wessington as she begins appearing -- again and again -- in a ghostly rickshaw that only he can see.

Just So Stories is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling in 1902. He developed them during one of his many journeys to Africa. He told children wonderful accounts of how the animal kingdom's eccentricities came about. The collection of stories came to be known for their wordplay and insistence of placing the wisdom of children at the heart of his stories.