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The Jungle Book key characters are Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and Sher Khan, biggest tiger in India. As Baloo the sleepy brown bear, Bagheera the cunning black panther, Kaa the python, and his other animal friends teach their beloved “man-cub” the ways of the jungle, Mowgli gains the strength and wisdom he needs for his frightful fight with Shere Khan, the tiger who robbed him of his human family. But there are also the tales of Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose and his “great war” against the vicious cobras Nag and Nagaina; of Toomai, who watches the elephants dance; and of Kotick the white seal, who swims in the Bering Sea.

Le livre de la jungle

Cats possess the ability to snub you faster than anything alive. They turn on the charm when it suits them, but then freeze your soul into an apologetic lump of ice with a single look. The cats in these stories go to sea, work in the mines, foil burglars, engage in political infighting, solve crimes, and engage in dirty tricks to make their owners comply with their wishes. Not much escapes the scope of their powers. With classic tales from Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain, as well as new stories from some of today's most original storytellers, this collection simply dares you to pick it up. Includes:"The Cat Who Walked by Himself" by Rudyard Kipling"Midshipman, the Cat" by John Coleman Adams"Dick Baker's Cat" by Mark Twain"Cat Burglary" by Jodi Lynn Nye"An Incursion of Mice" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"Cat in the Air" by Dean Wesley Smith"The Language of Cats" by Stefon Mears"Erwin or Ralph" by Ray Vukcevich

The Year of the Cat: A Cat of Disdainful Looks - The Year of the Cat, #3

At nine o'clock of a gusty winter night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G. P. O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in "Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed"; and the Postmaster-General himself countersigned the order. This talisman opened all doors, even those in the despatching-caisson at the foot of the tower, where they were delivering the sorted Continental mail. The bags lay packed close as herrings in the long gray under-bodies which our G. P. O. still calls "coaches." Five such coaches were filled as I watched, and were shot up the guides to be locked on to their waiting packets three hundred feet nearer the stars.

With the Night Mail

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In 1/1878 Kipling was admitted to the United Services College, at Westward Ho!, Devon, a school founded a few years earlier to prepare boys for the armed forces. The school proved rough going for him at first, but led to firm friendships & provided the setting for his schoolboy stories Stalky & Co., published years later. During his time there, he met & fell in love with Florence Garrard, the model for Maisie in his 1st novel, The Light That Failed, initially published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Dick Heldar is a war correspondent & an artist, known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist & encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. They fall in love. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of blindness, incurable--the result of a head wound he took during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, his hopes, his dreams--fail with it. There are terrible choices to be made between the love of the woman he treasures & the love of the men who stood by him at the front.

La lumière qui s'éteint

Comment le chameau acquit sa bosse ; le léopard ses taches et le rhinocéros sa peau... Comment le chien devint domestiqué tandis que le chat refusa la soumission... Des bords de l'Amazone jusqu'aux rives du grand fleuve Limpopo, le bon papa Kipling raconte, raconte, raconte...

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'WHAT do you think she'd do if she caught us? We oughtn't to have it, you know, ' said Maisie.

'Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom, ' Dick answered, without hesitation. 'Have you got the cartridges?'

'Yes; they're in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?'

'Don't know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.'

'I'm not afraid.' Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick followed with a small pin-fire revolver.

The children had discovered that their lives would be unendurable without pistol-practice. After much forethought and self-denial, Dick had saved seven shillings and sixpence, the price of a badly constructed Belgian revolver. Maisie could only contribute half a crown to the syndicate for the purchase of a hundred cartridges. 'You can save better than I can, Dick, ' she explained; 'I like nice things to eat, and it doesn't matter to you. Besides, boys ought to do these things.'

The Light That Failed

Les capitaines courageux: des marins aux prises avec les mers du Nord, à la recherche des grands bancs de poissons ; des hommes affrontant sans répit les tempêtes les plus violentes, et dont la vie n'est que sacrifice et héroïsme.Harvey Cheyne, jeune héritier d'une immense fortune, accidentellement tombé à la mer, est recueilli par la Sommes-Ici, goëlette qui est l'univers de ces capitaines courageux. Obligé de partager le sort de ses compagnons de voyage, il oublie peu à peu son origine, son enfance, pour, au contact de la mer, devenir un homme.

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