Poems of Rudyard Kipling: With a Biographical Introduction (Classic Reprint)
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Poems of Rudyard Kipling
EN NWISBN: 9781451006414 bzw. 1451006411, in Englisch, Forgotten Books, neu.
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Excerpt from Poems of Rudyard Kipling: With a Biographical Introduction In the old fairy tales the cradles of new-born infants were visited by beneficent beings who granted special gifts of fortune, beauty, talent, though sometimes a jealous hag would slink in and by a malevolent counter-charm try to spoil the bright future. Such things have long ago ceased in commonplace England, but it is different in India; and we can hardly help believing that the power of understanding the speech of animals and birds is still occasionally conferred on fortunate mortals. Else how can one explain "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," and "Tomai of the Elephants"? Fortunate for special purposes is the man of one race and language who is born amid the men of another, and thus inherits two tongues and the knowledge of two peoples. Such was the good fortune of Rudyard Kipling, and it is not a mere legend that, on meeting with Indian elephants amid the tawdry surroundings of an American circus, he was able to talk and understand the mystic language of the jungle. In the early sixties, in the English town of Burslem, John Lockwood Kipling, the oldest son of the Reverend Joseph Kipling, was engaged in modelling and designing in terra-cotta for the potteries of that place. He is described as a clever young man of artistic temperament and somewhat erratic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www. forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such h.
Excerpt from Poems of Rudyard Kipling: With a Biographical Introduction In the old fairy tales the cradles of new-born infants were visited by beneficent beings who granted special gifts of fortune, beauty, talent, though sometimes a jealous hag would slink in and by a malevolent counter-charm try to spoil the bright future. Such things have long ago ceased in commonplace England, but it is different in India; and we can hardly help believing that the power of understanding the speech of animals and birds is still occasionally conferred on fortunate mortals. Else how can one explain "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," and "Tomai of the Elephants"? Fortunate for special purposes is the man of one race and language who is born amid the men of another, and thus inherits two tongues and the knowledge of two peoples. Such was the good fortune of Rudyard Kipling, and it is not a mere legend that, on meeting with Indian elephants amid the tawdry surroundings of an American circus, he was able to talk and understand the mystic language of the jungle. In the early sixties, in the English town of Burslem, John Lockwood Kipling, the oldest son of the Reverend Joseph Kipling, was engaged in modelling and designing in terra-cotta for the potteries of that place. He is described as a clever young man of artistic temperament and somewhat erratic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www. forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such h.
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Poems of Rudyard Kipling: With a Biographical Introduction (Classic Reprint)
EN PB NWISBN: 9781451006414 bzw. 1451006411, in Englisch, FB &c Ltd, Taschenbuch, neu.
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Poems of Rudyard Kipling: With a Biographical Introduction (Classic Reprint)
EN NWISBN: 9781451006414 bzw. 1451006411, in Englisch, FB &c Ltd, neu.
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