Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), short-story writer, novelist and poet, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907).

Published in 1888, The Phantom Rickshaw is a short story set in Simla, a popular tourist destination in British India. The story is a first person account of a man named Jack who is haunted by his past.

CONTENTS:
The Phantom Rickshaw,
My Own True Ghost Story,
The Strange Ride Of Morrowbie Jukes,
The Man Who Would Be King, and
"The Finest Story In The World".

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. His early years, lived among exotic sights and sounds, were a constant delight, but from the age of five he was sent to foster parents in the UK, only returning to Lahore in 1882 to work on the Civil and Military Gazette as a reporter.
Here his writing career blossomed - along with poems and novels, numerous short stories flowed from his pen, the best of which were published as Plain Tales From The Hills in 1888. Kipling skillfully compresses the whole of India into a single volume: the fabulous customs, the grandiose scenery, Indias...

Rudyard Kipling is a master storyteller and these books are classics that should be in every library. The two Jungle Books are collections of short stories about the adventures of Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera - now made famous by Disney. The Just-So stories are about why animals are the way they are and Puck of Pook's Hill is a beautiful collection of short stories and poems. The three novels: The Man who would be King, Kim, Captain's Courageous are also included, "Kim" being thought to be the pinnacle of Kipling's writing. These stories are for teenagers or adults - they are coming of age...

The Lock and Key Library was an ambitious project to bring together a large collection of the best mystery and detective stories from a variety of times and cultures. This volume, the 8th in the series, concentrates on Modern English stories - modern for 1909 that is. Many are from authors still widely read today: Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Wilkie Collins, others from less well-known or anonymous sources. The contents are: My Own True Ghost Story, The Sending of Dana Da, In the House of Suddhoo, His Wedded Wife, A Case of Identity, A Scandal in Bohemia,...

"From the summit of the ivy-grown tower, the very rooks, in the midst of their cawing, are scared away by the furious rush and the wild howl with which the Wehr-Wolf thunders over the hallowed ground." - G. W. M. Reynolds, "Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf"
This collection brings together fifteen chilling stories of lycanthropy and murder written from 1838 to 1896, all taken from their original appearances in Victorian periodicals and story collections, many of them reprinted here for the first time. This edition includes a new introduction by Alexis Easley and Shannon Scott, explanatory notes, and...

Der kleine Mogli lebt bei einer Wolfsfamilie, die ihn als Baby aufgenommen hat. Hier lernt er alles, was er für das Leben im Dschungel braucht. Und nichts wünscht er sich sehnlicher, als ein vollwertiges Mitglied des Rudels zu werden.§Aber Schir Khan, der gefährliche und hinterhältige Tiger, trachtet ihm nach dem Leben. Moglis Freunde, der Bär Balu und der Panther Baghira, beschützen ihn vor dem Tiger. Und gemeinsam mit der Schlange Kaa befreien sie Mogli aus den Fängen der verrückten Affenbande. Doch dann gelingt es Schir Khan, das Wolfsrudel gegen das Menschenjunge aufzuhetzen....

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in childrens literature. Many of the earliest childrens books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the premier illustrators of the early 20th Century. He illustrated many books, the first of which was published in 1893. Throughout...

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in childrens literature. Many of the earliest childrens books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the premier illustrators of the early 20th Century. He illustrated many books, the first of which was published in 1893. Throughout...