On dit souvent de son animal domestique qu'il ne lui manque que la parole. Avec "Paroles de chien", Kipling a enfin réparé cette injustice ! Publié initialement en 1930, ce récit est raconté à la première personne par Botte, un aberdeen terrier comme celui que possédait Kipling. Avec une pointe d'ironie innocente, Kipling nous permet de voir le monde à travers les yeux de notre plus fidèle compagnon.

Paroles de chien

Pour avoir profané Hanuman, le Dieu-Singe, avec la cendre de sa cigarette, un colon anglais est frappé par un étrange sortilège qui le transforme en une bête hurlante. Seul un lépreux semble savoir comment le guérir...Bisesa, une jeune veuve indienne, donne à son amant anglais une preuve d'amour tout orientale.Jakin et Lew, deux enfants de troupe aussi drôles qu'héroïques, sonnent la charge au milieu de la débâcle générale et assurent ainsi une victoire inespérée à leur régiment.

La marque de la bête ; autres nouvelles

Oui mieux que l'auteur du Livre de la jungle et de Kim pouvait écrire sur le voyage et ses parfums ? Avec son âme de globe-trotteur, Kipling loue le fumet du feu dans les campements de fin de journée, l'incomparable parfum de la nuit tropicale, l'odeur de la glace polaire à la dérive, les effluves des bazars orientaux... Et, visionnaire, pressent que l'arrivée de l'aéronautique annonce une nouvelle esthétique du voyage,dans laquelle la saveur des pays sera tout autre.

Des voyages et des parfums

Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life. A celebration of their friendship in a beautiful but often hostile environment, 'Kim' captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.

She was the daughter of Sonoo, a Hill-man, and Jadeh his wife. One year their maize failed, and two bears spent the night in their only poppy-field just above the Sutlej Valley on the Kotgarth side; so, next season, they turned Christian, and brought their baby to the Mission to be baptized. The Kotgarth Chaplain christened her Elizabeth, and "Lispeth" is the Hill or pahari pronunciation.

Later, cholera came into the Kotgarth Valley and carried off Sonoo and Jadeh, and Lispeth became half-servant, half-companion to the wife of the then Chaplain of Kotgarth. This was after the reign of the Moravian missionaries, but before Kotgarth had quite forgotten her title of "Mistress of the Northern Hills."

Whether Christianity improved Lispeth, or whether the gods of her own people would have done as much for her under any circumstances, I do not know; but she grew very lovely. When a Hill girl grows lovely, she is worth traveling fifty miles over bad ground to look upon.

Plain Tales from the Hills

L'auteur, conteur magnifique, grand amoureux et connaisseur de l'Inde et de la nature, propose un voyage fabuleux au coeur de la jungle, parmi les loups, les tigres et les éléphants. Dans son monde, les animaux parlent et font souvent montre de sagesse, parfois de cruauté, ils sont effrayants comme Kaa le serpent ou Shere Khan le tigre, attachants comme Rikki-tikki-tavi la mangouste... De magnifiques récits, pleins d'aventures, de poésie : tout un univers... Suivis de huit nouvelles qui constituent le second opus de cet hymne à la jungle, plein de poésie et d'aventures.

  Nouv. éd. entièrement revue et corrigée. 
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Le livre de la jungle, suivi de : Le second livre de la jungle - Textes complets et annotés, traduits de l'anglais  par Louis Fabulet et Robert D'Humières [nouv. éd. entièrement revue et corrigée].

Quattro racconti - introvabili da tempo in Italia e mai raccolti insieme - caratterizzati da un preciso senso dell'avventura e da un graffiante umorismo venato di aspetti satirici. Uno dei lati meno noti e tuttavia originalissimi dell'autore di Kim, Il libro della giungla, Capitani coraggiosi e L'uomo che volle farsi ReIl diavolo e l'abisso viene pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1895 sul numero natalizio del settimanale « The Graphic » ed è l'avventura finale di un grande piroscafo utilizzato per missioni assai dubbie, che cambia continuamente nome. Un giorno, trasformato in baleniera e battente bandiera britannica, viene notato da una cannoniera nei mari dell'Indonesia, dove le balene non si sono mai viste, e braccato. Ne seguono battaglie, vicende giudiziarie, e la fuga dei pirati che nascondevano un prezioso carico. A questo straordinario e travolgente racconto lungo, in una nuova traduzione, se ne aggiungono altri tre: La nave che trovò se stessa, La mia domenica in patria e Pane nell'acqua, dai quali emerge la sapienza narrativa di un autore che per lungo tempo è stato celebre e amato quanto Dickens e Conrad.

Il diavolo e l’abisso - e altri racconti

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Selected Verse

Run with them. Or fear them--Bagheera the Panther: A silken shadow of boldness and cunning.Kaa the Python: A thirty foot battering ram driven by a cool, hungry mind.Baloo the Bear: who keeps the lore and the Law, and teaches the Secret Words.Rikki the Mongoose: The young protector who sings as he slays.Akela and Raksha the Wolves: Demon warriors of the Free People.Shere Khan the Tiger: The dreaded enemy of all.And Mowgli the Man-cub: The orphan baby raised by the wolves, taught by Baloo, trained by Bagheera and Kaa. The sorcerer who knows the ways of the jungle and speaks the language of the wild...

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