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This is a fascinating selection of Kipling\'s most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. Lifes Handicap reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunted destinies. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the fascinatingly diverse topics featured in Many inventions. While Traffics and Discoveries contains three tales in which the subject matter ranges from unexplained mystery and the super natural to an other-worldly house full of elusive but charming children. The Maltese cat is Kipling\'s well-loved story about a polo pony, These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the fascinatingly diverse topics featured in Many inventions. While Traffics and Discoveries contains three tales in which the subject matter ranges from unexplained mystery and the super natural to an other-worldly house full of elusive but charming children. The Maltese cat is Kipling\'s well-loved story about a polo pony, These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them trough the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, Mermaids and Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as captain Hook explains liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band.Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is the magical tale that first introduces Peter Pan, the little boy who never grows any older. He escapes his human form and flies to Kensington Gardens, where all his happy memories are, and meets the fairies, the thrushes, and Old Caw the crow. The fairies think he is too human to be allowed to stay in after Lock-out time, so he flies off to an island which divides the Gardens from the more grown-up Hyde Park. Peters adventures, and how he eventually meets Mamie and the goat, are delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as captain Hook explains liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band.Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is the magical tale that first introduces Peter Pan, the little boy who never grows any older. He escapes his human form and flies to Kensington Gardens, where all his happy memories are, and meets the fairies, the thrushes, and Old Caw the crow. The fairies think he is too human to be allowed to stay in after Lock-out time, so he flies off to an island which divides the Gardens from the more grown-up Hyde Park. Peters adventures, and how he eventually meets Mamie and the goat, are delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is the magical tale that first introduces Peter Pan, the little boy who never grows any older. He escapes his human form and flies to Kensington Gardens, where all his happy memories are, and meets the fairies, the thrushes, and Old Caw the crow. The fairies think he is too human to be allowed to stay in after Lock-out time, so he flies off to an island which divides the Gardens from the more grown-up Hyde Park. Peters adventures, and how he eventually meets Mamie and the goat, are delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book, The Just So Stories and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings.This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghost, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical local of India, to the leafy suburbs of England and then to the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War; Kipling provides us with a chilling array of experiences and images which will linger long in the memory.There is a timeless element to these tales which make them as relevant and as stimulating today as when they were first written.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghost, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical local of India, to the leafy suburbs of England and then to the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War; Kipling provides us with a chilling array of experiences and images which will linger long in the memory.There is a timeless element to these tales which make them as relevant and as stimulating today as when they were first written.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.There is a timeless element to these tales which make them as relevant and as stimulating today as when they were first written.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Gloss, both of which are included here illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel\'s much-Loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature. Lewis Carroll created dozens of other verses, stories, acrostics and puzzles, and the mock heroic nonsense verse The Hunting of the Snark all of which are included in this omnibus volume. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children\\\'s tales of all time. Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away to join a puppet show, he teams up with a rascally fox and wily cat, and plays truant from school which has dreadful consequences. Eventually the conscience of a talking cricket and Pinocchio\\\'s guardian fairy restore him to good behaviour, obedience and care for others. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier, It evokes the chaos and the dull clatter of war: the acrid smoke, the incessant rumours of coming battles, the filth and cold, the numbing monotony, the unworldly wail of the dying. Like an Impressionist painter, Crane also captures the strange beauty of war: the brilliant red flags against a blue sky, steel bayonets flashing in the morning sun as soldiers step off into battle. In the midst of this chaotic outer world, he creates an intricate inner world as he takes us inside the head of Henry Fleming. Crane is now recognised as one of a handful of daring innovators who helped shape modern American fiction. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered; he slips into a cooling stream, fails asleep, and becomes a Water Baby. In his new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden\'s isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonbyasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby. After a long and arduous quest to the Other-end-of-Nowhere young Tom achieves his heart\'s desire. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In his new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden\'s isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonbyasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby. After a long and arduous quest to the Other-end-of-Nowhere young Tom achieves his heart\'s desire. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información