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One of the most enduring themes in great literature is the eternal struggle between good and evil - often embodied in such devices as the werewolf, the doppelganger and the evil twin. This anthology presents a selection of the greatest short stories whose tension and drama revolves around the conflict of good and evil.

Seventeen iconic poems from World War One, including: Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Deorum Est"; "In Flanders Fields" by John McRae; "Counter Attack" by Siegfried Sassoon; Rupert Brook's "The Soldier"; and many more that bring the horrors of the Great War vividly to life through the eyes of those living them.

Zahvatyvayushchaya istoriya o Maugli, mal'chike, vospitannom volkami i prochimi obitatelyami dzhungley, ego blizost' k miru zhivotnyh, a takzhe dramaticheskie otnosheniya s lyud'mi, k kotorym on vse-taki vynuzhden vernut'sya; udivit'sya hrabrosti malen'kogo otvazhnogo mangusta Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, vstupivshego v edinoborstvo s kobrami; ocenit' muzhestvo i uporstvo belogo kotika, reshivshego obespechit' svoim sobrat'yam bezopasnuyu zhizn'.

'In the high and far off times...' begins Rudyard Kipling’s 'How the Elephant Got His Trunk', and off we are taken by one of the most supreme storytellers into a world where children’s questions are turned neatly on their heads, and questions are provided which, far from stopping the stream of enquiries, only serve to make it gush faster.

It was seven o'clock on a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws, one after the other, to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.

Savez-vous pourquoi l'éléphant a une trompe, la baleine ne mange que des petits poissons, le chameau porte une bosse sur son dos ou encore pourquoi le kangourou fait des bonds pour se déplacer ? Dans ses "Histoires comme ça", Rudyard Kipling, l'auteur du célèbre "Livre de la jungle", répond à ces questions en imaginant avec liberté et poésie l'origine du monde et de ses habitants.

There are certain stories which stand out from the crowd owing to the unique creativity of the plot and the skill with which the author unfolds his tale. This selection contains 50 of the most ingenious short stories ever written. Includes: 'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' by J. S. Fletcher; 'The Umbrella' by Arnold Bennett; 'The Lovely Lady' by D. H. Lawrence; 'The Lake' by W. F. Harvey; 'A Tiger’s Skin' by W. W. Jacobs; and 'The Strange Case of Mr. Todmorden' by F. Britten Austin.

A moment of drunken disrespect sets the stage for the battle for the soul of a man in this Rudyard Kipling classic! A multi-cast, fully soundscaped audio drama!

A collection of 50 of the world's great creepy stories. "Creepy" does not necessarily mean ghost or horror stories but rather stories that literally make our flesh creep by shaking our false sense of security and comprehension of the world.

Mowgli, le "petit homme", a hanté notre enfance. Il est sorti des pages du "Livre de la Jungle" pour nous prendre par la main et nous entraîner dans ses hautes terres de liberté. C'est grâce à lui que nous avons surpris les conversations, participé aux chasses, aux jeux, aux angoisses, aux farces, des singes, des loups, serpents, chacals... et de Rikki-tikki-tavi, la mangouste... et de Bagheera la belle panthère noire. Revenu chez lui, il est couronné roi des éléphants et épouse sa cousine Céleste.

Masonic Brother Rudyard Kipling sets this fictional Masonic tale during World War I. A wealthy shop-keeper is running a Masonic lodge for traveling brothers from around the globe, most of whom are in and out of London, due to the war. Many can't be authenticated as Masons, but are permitted to sit in lodge, based on partial examinations and an overall gut feeling. The topic of what Grand Lodge would think about this comes up as an eventual conversation.

Ein kleiner indischer Junge wird durch den Überfall des lahmen Tigers Shere Khan auf seine Eltern von diesen getrennt und stößt im Dschungel zufällig auf eine Wolfsfamilie, die ihn unter Leitung der Wölfin Raksha zusammen mit ihrem eigenen Wurf aufzieht. Die Wölfe nennen ihn "Mowgli" und er erlernt nach und nach alle Fertigkeiten, die er zum Überleben im Dschungel benötigt. Nach einiger Zeit wird er, wie alle Wolfskinder, dem gesamten Rudel präsentiert, um begutachtet und akzeptiert zu werden. Auf die Fürsprache des Bären Balu, dem "Lehrer der Gesetze", und des schwarzen Panthers Bagheera wird er ins Rudel aufgenommen.

One of the most enduring themes in literature through the ages has been the internal conflict between two sides of a single character. It manifests itself in different ways, from the classic werewolf story to souls which are invaded by evil spirits to the pseudo sci-fi of Jekyll and Hyde to strange tales of total amnesia as in Barry Pain's masterpiece "The Missing Years". This collection brings together a selection of different tales, in each of which tension is created when a human soul is split into more than one part.

This book contains the first three short stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. These stories tell the exciting adventures of Mowgli - a boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India.

From Rudyard Kipling's classic The Jungle Book, Rikki Tikki Tavi is the story of a mongoose and two cobras. Taken in after being washed into the garden of a British family in India, he protects the house from the devious cobras Nag and Nagaina with help from his friends and mongoose cunning.

Der Waisenjunge Kim hält sich im Indien der 1890er-Jahre mit Botengängen und Betteln über Wasser. Als er auf einen buddhistischen Mönch trifft, begibt er sich mit ihm auf eine abenteuerliche Reise entlang der Grand Trunk Road. Doch auf den quirligen Straßen Indiens werden die beiden voneinander getrennt. Kim gelangt auf eine englische Schule und tritt anschließend als Spion in den britischen Geheimdienst ein. Seinem wahren Meister jedoch hält er lebenslang die Treue.

Izdanie soderzhit polnyj tekst samogo znamenitogo proizvedenija "Kniga dzhunglej" i prodolzhenie - "Vtoraja kniga dzhunglej" velikogo anglijskogo pisatelja - prozaika i pojeta, laureata Nobelevskoj premii po literature (1907) Dzhozefa Red'jarda Kiplinga (1865-1936). Obe knigi vkljuchajut v sebja neskol'ko rasskazov v pouchitel'noj manere. Glavnye geroi - zhivotnye. Maugli - rasskaz o mal'chike, kotorogo vospitala staja volkov.

Izdanie soderzhit zamechatel'nyj rasskaz o zhivotnyh velikogo anglijskogo pisatelja - prozaika i pojeta, laureata Nobelevskoj premii po literature (1907) Dzhozefa Red'jarda Kiplinga (1865-1936). Jetot rasskaz vhodit v znamenityj sbornik "Vtoraja Kniga Dzhunglej" (1895 g.).

Izdanie soderzhit zamechatel'nyj rasskaz o zhivotnyh velikogo anglijskogo pisatelja - prozaika i pojeta, laureata Nobelevskoj premii po literature (1907) Dzhozefa Red'jarda Kiplinga (1865-1936). Jetot rasskaz vhodit v znamenityj sbornik "Kniga Dzhunglej" (1894 g). "Malen'kij Tumai" - istorija slona Kala Naga i ego pogonshhika malen'kogo Tumai. Istorija preodolenija sebja, svoego straha, istorija stanovlenija haraktera, istorija vozniknovenija druzhby mezhdu slonom i chelovekom...

Wer kennt sie nicht, die bezaubernden Figuren aus dem "Dschungelbuch"? Jetzt treten Balu der Bär, Shir Khan der Tiger und der Menschenjunge Mowgli erstmals in einem Hörspiel auf. Eine liebevoll und zeitgemäß inszenierte Reise in Mowglis Welt aus der Hörspielwerkstatt des WDR - mit den umwerfend tierischen Stimmen von Traugott Buhre als Balu und Christian Redl als Baghira.