сказки

зарубежная классика

зарубежные детские книги

«Сказки и легенды» – цикл удивительных сказок великого английского писателя Редьярда Киплинга.
Рассказы Киплинг написал для своих дочерей, поэтому в тексте частые обращения к одной из них.

Сказки и легенды. Редьярд Киплинг

«Как было написано первое письмо» – сказка британского писателя Редьярда Киплинга.
Главная мысль сказки «Как было написано первое письмо» – неграмотность может обернуться большими неприятностями! Эта веселая история показывает, как важно прилежно учиться и грамотно доносить свои мысли, чтобы не попасть в нелепую ситуацию.

Как было написано первое письмо

This story was first published in Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette for 1885, which included four stories by the nineteen-year-old Kipling with other items of prose and verse by his parents and sister. It was revised before being collected in The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales, Volume 5 of the Indian Railway Library, of 1890. It was included in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, published in 1890, and in numerous later editions of that collection.
Jack Pansay has had a passionate ship-board romance with Agnes Keith-Wessington, the golden-haired wife of an officer. He wearies of her and tells her so, but she refuses to accept his rejection, insisting that it is all «a hideous mistake». She grows wan and thin, but he continues to respond curtly and brutally. He becomes engaged to Kitty Mannering, a lively young woman, whom he deeply loves, and – not long after – Agnes dies of a broken heart. Soon after, his rides out with Kitty around Simla are disrupted by the ghost of Agnes, in her familiar yellow-panelled rickshaw, which only he can see. She is still insisting that it is all «a hideous mistake». His friends think he is mad or drunk, his doctor is mystified, and Kitty breaks off the engagement. His life is ruined, and he goes to his death, still haunted by the golden-haired ghost.

The Phantom Rickshaw (Unabridged)

First published in Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in successive subsequent editions of this collection, in which it was the fourth of the Mulvaney stories.
Private Stanley Ortheris, small, tough, a crack shot, Cockney to his bones, and serving the Queen in India, is plunged in suicidal gloom. He is overcome with homesickness for London, &apos;…sick for the sounds of &apos;er and the stinks of &apos;er; orange-peel and hasphalte an&apos; gas comin&apos; in over Vaux&apos;all Bridge. Sick for the rail goin&apos; down to Box &apos;ill, with your gal on your knee an&apos; a new clay pipe to your face…&apos;. To jerk him out of his depression, the narrator offers to help him desert, get to Karachi, and take ship for England. Ortheris agrees to rendezvous in the long grass by the riverbank, dressed in civlian clothes, to pick up a rail ticket. But when they meet him at dusk, the mood has left him, he is contrite and desperate to get back into uniform, to the life he knows with Mulvaney and Learoyd.

городское фэнтези

детективное фэнтези

авантюрные приключения

становление героя

магические миры

приключенческое фэнтези

The Madness of Private Ortheris (Unabridged)

The story was published in the Civil and Military Gazette on April 30 1886 under the title «Section 420, I.P.C.» (Indian Penal Code), in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.
Suddhoo, an old man in an old wooden house in Lahore, is very anxious about his son, who is gravely ill with pleurisy in Peshawar. A seal-cutter, who lives in the house, sees this as a means of extorting money from Suddhoo. He secretly gets a friend in Peshawar to telegraph him daily accounts of the son&apos;s health, and undertakes to save him by magic, on payment of many rupees.

публицистическая литература

эссе

научная фантастика

социальная фантастика

зарубежная фантастика

зарубежная публицистика

публицистика

остросюжетная фантастика

антология фантастики

юбилейный сборник

In the House of Suddhoo (Unabridged)

&quot;The Rout of the White Hussars" is an short story by Rudyard Kipling: This story was first published in the first edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888 and was included in subsequent editions of this collection.
The White Hussars were a first class cavalry regiment, who &apos;knew that they could walk round any Horse and through any Guns and over any Foot on the face of the earth.&apos; They were particularly proud of their Regimental Band and of their Drum Horse who carried the silver kettle-drums. A new colonel takes over as Commanding Officer, and to the fury of the whole regiment insists on replacing the Drum Horse with what they see as a much inferior beast. One of the subalterns buys the horse, pretends to have it slaughtered, and mounts a skeleton on its back. One evening, while the horses are being watered after manoeuvres, the spectral-looking Drum Horse is seen riding towards his old comrades, and the regiment flees in disorder across the countryside. The Colonel, after much argument, is persuaded to bring the old horse back.

законы и постановления

The Rout of the White Hussars (Unabridged)

First published in the Soldiers Three volume of The Indian Railway Library in 1888, and collected in Soldiers Three and Other Stories in the same year.
Many years before, as a private in the Black Tyrone, Mulvaney had found himself living in a barrack room with a group of bad characters. Their sergeant was hard on them, and they planned to get revenge on him, but Mulvaney would have nothing to do with the idea.

Black Jack (Unabridged)

An English family have just moved to a house in India. They find Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the mongoose flooded out of his burrow. A pair of large cobras, Nag and Nagaina, attempt unsuccessfully to kill him. He hears the cobras plotting to kill the father in the house, and attacks Nag in the bathroom. The sound of the fight attracts the father, who shoots Nag. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi destroys Nagaina&apos;s eggs and chases her into her «rat-hole» where he kills her too.

фэнтези

героическое фэнтези

похищение

жизнь после смерти

эксперименты

литературные сценарии

секретные организации

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Unabridged)

Mowgli returns to the human village and is adopted by Messua and her husband, who believe him to be their long-lost son. Mowgli leads the village boys who herd the village&apos;s buffaloes. Shere Khan comes to hunt Mowgli, but he is warned by Gray Brother wolf, and with Akela they find Shere Khan asleep, and stampede the buffaloes to trample Shere Khan to death. Mowgli leaves the village, and goes back to hunt with the wolves until he becomes a man.

юридическая литература

юриспруденция

Tiger! Tiger! (Unabridged)

Kotick, a rare white-furred fur seal, sees seals being killed by islanders in the Bering Sea. He decides to find a safe home for his people, and after several years of searching as he comes of age, eventually finds a suitable place. He returns home and persuades the other seals to follow him.

медицина / здравоохранение

автоматика и телемеханика

медицина

The White Seal (Unabridged)

&quot;With the Main Guard" is an short story by Rudyard Kipling: First published in The Week&apos;s News of Allahabad on August 4th 1888, issued in Soldiers Three (Indian Railway Library No. 1) the same year, and collected in Soldiers Three and other Stories in 1899.
It is a stifling June night in Fort Amara at Lahore, and the men are doing all they can to fight off heat exhaustion or worse. Mulvaney gets them through the terrible hours until dawn by telling a tale of a bloody fight by the Black Tyrone and the &apos;Ould Regiment&apos; against an army of Pathans on the Frontier. But he asks the narrator at the end «…can thim that helps others help thimselves ?» , a question that Kipling, the great teller of tales, must have sometimes asked himself.

приключения

детские приключения

детская фантастика

книги о приключениях

детская литература

познавательно-развлекательные книги для детей

современные сказки

With the Main Guard (Unabridged)

This story was first published in The Week&apos;s News of 5 May 1888, and in Volume VI of The Indian Railway Library the same year. It was included in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, published in 1890, and in numerous later editions of that collection.
Little Toby, &apos;His Majesty the King&apos;, is the neglected six-year-old child of an estranged couple. He is desperate to earn his mother&apos;s affection, and be loved, as his friend Patsie is loved by her mother. Attracted by the pretty string, the child intercepts a jewel in a parcel addressed to his mother, containing a curt note that would have widened the breach between his parents had it been delivered. When, later, this comes to light the affair is revealed, and the parents are reconciled.

экономика

гуманитарные и общественные науки

финансовые инструменты

книги по экономике

финансовые инвестиции

биткойн

криптовалюта

об экономике популярно

современные технологии

His Majesty the King (Unabridged)

In these stories, Kipling sets the stage for encounters between the East and the West. Kipling takes on the thorny issues of empire, race, race, miscegenation and the practice of going native, and uses them as literary tropes to examine human culture, religion and society.

Indian Tales

&quot;At Twenty-two" is an short story by Rudyard Kipling: This story was first published in The Week&apos;s News of 18 February 1888. It was collected in «In Black and White», No. 3 in The Indian Railway Library, and in Soldiers Three in 1895.
Janki Meah is an old blind white-haired coal miner who has married, rather ill-advisedly, a beautiful young woman, Unda. She plans to steal his savings and run away with her young lover, Kundoo, who is also a miner in Janki Meah&apos;s gang. One day, after weeks of rain, the mine is flooded, and their gang is trapped. Janki Meah, blind though he is, knows the mine galleries intimately, and leads the trapped men – including Kundoo – to a place where they can cut through to safety. He claims a pension from the company. But Unda promptly elopes with Kundoo.

историческая литература

монастыри

история Церкви

краеведение

серьезное чтение

об истории серьезно

At Twenty-two (Unabridged)

Toomai&apos;s father rides Kala Nag the elephant to catch wild elephants in the hills. Toomai comes to help and risks his life throwing a role up to one of the drivers. His father forbids him to enter the elephant enclosure again. One night he follows the elephant hunters, and is picked up by Kala Nag; he rides into the elephants&apos; meeting place in the jungle, where they dance. On his return he is welcomed by both hunters and elephants.

юмористическая литература

юмор и сатира

приколы

Произведения самиздата

Toomai of the Elephants (Unabridged)

&quot;The Courting of Dinah Shadd" is an short story by Rudyard Kipling: First published in Macmillan&apos;s Magazine and Harper&apos;s Weekly in March 1890. Collected in The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories in the same year, in Mine Own People in the United States (1891) and Life&apos;s Handicap (1891).
There is an extended &apos;frame&apos; to this tale, in which the narrator is out on manoeuvres with the &apos;Ould Regiment&apos;. After a lively day, they bivouac companionably for the night. He falls in with the &apos;Soldiers Three&apos;, and settles down by their camp fire. Mulvaney is thoughtful, reflecting on the adventures and misadventures of his life. &apos;For all we take, we must pay,&apos; he murmurs, &apos;but the price is cruel high&apos;.

космическая фантастика

предательство

апокалипсис

будущее человечества

технологии будущего

выдающиеся ученые

The Courting of Dinah Shadd (Unabridged)

This story was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on 11 May 1887, and collected in the first edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888 and in subsequent editions of this collection.
Miss Jhansi McKenna is six foot high, all yellow freckles and red hair, a formidable figure on the dance floor. She is held in great regard in the regiment, as Mulvaney explains, because of her mother, Bridget McKenna, wife of the Colour Sergeant of &apos;B&apos; Company, called &apos;Ould Pummeloe&apos;. Ould Pummeloe had saved many lives at the cost of her own when the regiment was stricken by cholera in a troop train, and they had never forgotten her.

детская познавательная и развивающая литература

The Daughter of the Regiment (Unabridged)

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