Rudyard Kipling
4) Kim
Kimball O'Hara, is the orphan son of a British soldier and a half-caste opium addict in India. While running free through the streets of Lahore as a child he befriends a British secret service agent. Later, attaching himself to a Tibetan Lama on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life, Kim becomes the Lama's disciple, but is also used by the British to carry messages to the British commander in Umballa. Kim's trip with the Lama along the Grand
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"The motives that swayed the characters were beyond their comprehension; the fates that shifted them were gods they had never met; the sidelights Mrs. Cloke threw on act and incident were more amazing than anything in the record. Therefore the Chapins listened delightedly, and blessed Mrs. Shonts."But why--why--why--did So-and-so do so-and-so?" Sophie would demand from her seat by the pothook; and Mrs. Cloke would
...Under the Deodars is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling:
"The Education of Otis Yeere"
"At the Pit's Mouth"
"A Wayside Comedy"
"The Hill of Illusion"
"A Second-rate Woman"
"Only a Subaltern"
"In the Matter of a Private"
"The Enlightenments of Pagett, M. P."
Traffics and Discoveries is a collection of poems and short stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Stories (11):
The Captive
The Bonds of Discipline
A Sahibs' War
"Their Lawful Occasions" (as Part I and Part II)
The Comprehension of Private Copper
Steam Tactics
"Wireless"
The Army of a Dream (as Part I and Part II)
"They"
Mrs.
...15) France at War
In 1915, in the second year of the Great War, Kipling made a tour as a journalist on the front of some of the French armed forces. His report of what he had seen of the military activity was published in six articles in the Daily Telegraph, in England, and in the New York Sun.
Among the Railway Folk is a detailed description of day-to-day life on a narrow guage steam powered Indian Railway circa 1890. It includes stories of the shops (located on "Steam Street"), working hours, how the engines were named, the 180 item checklist used when they shopped, and engineers' working conditions. (from Google Books)
À quinze ans, Harvey Cheyne possède au suprême degré le don de se rendre antipathique. Les passagers du paquebot sur lequel a pris place ce fils d'un multi-millionnaire américain sont unanimes à lui reprocher son insolence prétentieuse. Harvey tombe par-dessus le bastingage. Est-ce pour lui la fin? Non, c'est le commencement de l'existence. Les hommes du We're Here, géolette britannique que commande le rude, mais bienveillant
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