Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 508
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129101629
Description
Here in this omnibus edition is a collection of the best among Rudyard Kipling’s humorous tales for children. They bear proof of Kipling’s mastery over prose and lead the little readers to a realm of laughter and amusement, with a dig at this world of pomp and strife.
This edition includes The Legend of Mirth, The Taking of Lungtungpen, Moti Guj-Mutineer, My Sunday at Home, Pig, Alnaschar and the Oxen, the Bull that thought, the finances of the gods, the Master-cook, The Fabulists, Gallio’s Song and My Lord the Elephant.
Contents
PART I
The Legend of Mirth
The Taking of Lungtungpen
Moti Guj-Mutineer
The Rout of the White Hussars
The First Salior
Judson and the empire
Namgay Doola
My Sunday at Home
Pig
PART II
Alnaschar and the Oxen
The Bull that Thought
A Flight of Fast
Private Learoyd’s Story
The Finances of the Gods
The Song of Seven Cities
The Necessitairan
PART III
The Master-Cook
His Gift
The Press
The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
PART IV
The Puzzler
The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
The Fabulists
The Vortex
PART V
Gallio’s Song
Little Foxes
My Lord the Elephant
Brugglesmith
The Sending of Dana Da