Book review
siliconindia is happy to offer six of Kipling's best in one exciting set.

KIM
Paperback
Pages: 321
Kim (1901) - Kimball O'Hara is the orphan son of an Irish colour-sergeant and a nursemaid in a colonel's family. Kim meets a Tibetian Lama and attaches himself to the old man as a discipline. Working for the British Secret Service, Kim carries a vital message to Colonel Creighton in Umballa and is helped by the Lame on his journey. The chaplain of his father's old regiment recognizes Kim and he is dispatched to the scool of Anglo-Indian children at Lucknow. Kim rejoins the Lama in an expedition to the hill country of the North and his destiny is left undecided - the life of an adventurer and the values of contemplation both attract him. - Behind the story of Kim is perhaps true characters - Peter Hopkirk mentions in his book Quest for Kim (1997) a certain Tim Doolan, the son of an Irish sergeant.

Junglebook
Illustrated, Paperback
Pages: 277

How Fear Came & Other Stories
Illustrated, Paperback
Pages: 72

The stories in this volume are culled from THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK (1894), Kipling has drwan on his deep knowledge of India and the people and animals of the jungle to tell stories that have delighted innumerable readers. The best known are those about Mowgli, the Wolf boy, and his animal companion: Akela the lone wolf, Bagheera the black panther, babloo the brown bear, Kaa the big rock python and many more.

The Song of the Little Hunter
Illustrated, Paperback
Pages: 41

The story and Poems in this collection are called from Kipling's The Second Jungle book (1895). Kadlu, an Innuit (i.e an Eskimo), lives with his wife Amoraq and son Kotuko in Tuninirmuit where for nine months of the year there is only ice and snow and gale after gale. And for six months of those nine, it is dark while in the three months of the summer it only freezes every other day! This book recounts the adventure of Kotuko. The stories delight you with tales spun around seal hunting, sea bird snaring and dog sleighing, the chief preoccupations in the land 'far away to the north'

The Miracle of Purun Bhagat & other stories
Illustrated, Paperback
Pages: 55

'The Miracle of Purun Bhagat' is about Sir Purun Dass who forsakes the material world to beocme Purun Bhagat, a houseless wandering mendicant. A kali shrine on a terraced hillside, where he had stopped to rest, saw the end of his wandering. He was soon declared as a 'holy man' by the townspeople. And then one night that Purun Bhagat again became Purun Dass - a man accustomed to command and went to save life. This collection also includes 'The Undertaker', ' A song of Kabir', and ' A ripple Song'.

The King's Ankus & Other Stories
Illustrated, Paperback
Pages: 95
The story in this collection are called from Kipling's The Second Jungle book (1895).




About the author Rudyard Kipling was a poet, novelist and short story write, He was born in bombay. After his schooling in England he moved over to India in 1882, where he began his journalistic career with Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. By the time he returned to England in 1896 he had published many of his classic children's stories that made him highly popular. In 1907, he became the first British auther to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.