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Rudyard Kipling

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Ztracený svět s podtitulem: čili zpráva o úžasných nedávných dobrodružstvích profesora G. E. Challengera, Lorda Johna Roxtona, Profesora Summerleea a pana E. D. Malonea z redakce Daily Gazette je epistolární román žánru science fiction, který napsal sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Poprvé vyšel na pokračování v časopise Strand …

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Knihy džunglí je dvoudílná kniha dobrodružných povídek a novel, kterou napsal anglický spisovatel Rudyard Kipling, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 1907. První díl vyšel roku 1894 pod názvem Kniha džunglí a o rok později následovalo pokračování s titulem Druhá kniha džunglí. Ustálená současná nakladatelská …

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How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with …

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Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also …