Rudyard Kipling Ultimate Short Story Collection: 440+ Short Stories in One Volume (Complete Illustrated Edition)
Enriched edition. A Literary Treasure of Over 440 Timeless TalesBy Rudyard Kipling
Length180h 37m
About this audiobook
Rudyard Kipling's "Ultimate Short Story Collection" compiles over 440 of his captivating narratives, reflecting the richness and diversity of his literary prowess. This complete illustrated edition showcases Kipling's mastery of storytelling, encompassing themes of adventure, colonialism, and human experience, all intricately woven with vivid characterization and sharp wit. From the beloved "The Jungle Book" tales to the poignant stories from the Indian subcontinent, Kipling's works are a testament to his ability to capture the sociocultural milieu of the British Empire and its subjects through immersive and at times fantastical prose. Rudyard Kipling, born in 1865 in Bombay, was deeply influenced by his upbringing in India, which became a principal backdrop for many of his stories. His experiences, coupled with the prevailing imperialist sentiments of the Victorian era, informed his perspectives on duty, race, and identity. Kipling's literary journey, accentuated by his travels and interactions, offers audiences a window into the complexities of a world on the cusp of modernity, framed through Kipling's keen observational lens. This collection is a must-read for enthusiasts of short fiction and admirers of Kipling's intricate narratives. Whether for academic study or leisure reading, this anthology presents an invaluable opportunity to explore the myriad worlds crafted by one of the greatest storytellers of the 20th century.
In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length180 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 8, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter 1. A Real Live City
7Chapter 2. The Reflections of a Savage
8Chapter 3. The Council of the Gods
9Chapter 4. On the Banks of the Hughli
10Chapter 5. With the Calcutta Police
11Chapter 6. The City of Dreadful Night
12Chapter 7. Deeper and Deeper Still
13Chapter 8. Concerning Lucia
14Plain Tales From the Hills
15Lispeth
16Yoked With an Unbeliever
17His Chance in Life
18A Germ Destroyer
19His Wedded Wife
20Tods' Amendment
21The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case
22On the Strength of a Likeness
23Soldier’s Three
24The God From the Machine
25The Big Drunk Draf'
26With the Main Guard
27Black Jack
28The World Without
29The Garden of Eden
30The Valley of the Shadow
31Dray Wara Yow Dee
32Gemini
33The Sending of Dana Da
34'Love-O'women'
35The Big Drunk Draf'
36The Man Who Was
37In the Matter of a Private
38The Drums of the Fore and Aft
39Judson and the Empire
40A Conference of the Powers
41The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
42The Phantom 'Rickshaw
43My Own True Ghost Story
44The Man Who Would Be King
45"The Finest Story in the World"
46The Education of Otis Yeere
47At the Pit's Mouth
48A Second-Rate Woman
49Only a Subaltern
50The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P
Kim (Adventure Classic) - IllustratedRudyard Kipling11h 54m$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Tales in One EditionRudyard Kipling179h 14m$1.99 · $0.00
Complete Novels of Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed + Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks + Kim + The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (Illustrated) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling43h 38m4.5 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
Der Mann, der König sein wollte - Zweisprachige Ausgabe (Deutsch-Englisch) (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling5h 1m4.4 (18)$1 · $0.00
Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling180h 26m$2 · $0.00
The Jungle Book (With the Original Illustrations by John L. Kipling) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling6h 39m$2 · $0.00
Plain Tales from the Hills: 40+ Short Stories Collection (The Tales of Life in British India) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling10h 45m3.9 (12.9K)$2 · $0.00
Gesammelte Erzählungen (116 Titel in einem Buch): Das Dschungelbuch + Dunkeles Indien - Phantastische Erzählungen + Aus Indiens Glut + Soldatengeschichten + und mehr (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling48h 12m4.4 (102)$1 · $0.00
Dunkles Indien. Phantastische Erzählungen (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling13h 3m$1 · $0.00
THE JUNGLE BOOK – Complete Edition: Book 1&2 (With the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling13h 29m4.1 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling13h 27m4.3 (4.8K)$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling319h 29m4.3 (391)$2 · $0.00
The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First & The Second Battalion (Volume 1&2 - Complete Edition) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling25h 23m4.6 (12)$2 · $0.00
Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Short Stories in One Edition (Illustrated) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling179h 19m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Poetical Works of Rudyard Kipling (570+ Poems in One Edition) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling23h 2m4.4 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Der Mann, der König sein wollte / The Man Who Would be King - Zweisprachige Ausgabe (Deutsch-Englisch) / Bilingual edition (German-English) (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling4h 59m4.1 (12.5K)$1 · $0.00
Lange Latte und Genossen (Autobiographischer Roman) (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling11h 1m$1 · $0.00
Die Taten des Tauchboots - Erzählungen aus dem "Handelsbetrieb" (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling2h 25m$1 · $0.00
Nur so Geschichten - Das tierische Märchenbuch (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling5h 16m$1 · $0.00
RUDYARD KIPLING PREMIUM COLLECTION: His Greatest Works in One Volume (Illustrated) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling244h 33m4.4 (125)$2 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
These Precious DaysAnn Patchett11h 14m4.5 (45.2K)$29 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
The Complete Histories / History Plays of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare29h 42m4.6 (2.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography (Annotated)William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 40m4.6 (1.3K)$1 · $0.00
H. P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate Collection: Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft12h 28m4.6 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 54m4.5 (10.6K)$2 · $0.00
TORAH - Bilingual Edition: English/Hebrew (Annotated)Max Margolis, JPS28h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m4.5 (6.5K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Tales of Beatrix PotterBeatrix Potter3h 36m4.5 (75K)$3 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
The North American IndianEdward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge6h4.5 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Uncensored 13 Chapter Version + The Revised 20 Chapter Version (Annotated)Oscar Wilde16h 12m4.5 (2.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
Grimoire Of The Everyday WitchIsadora Lys / Virginia Santos5h 35m4.5 (3.9K)$9 · $0.00
Winnie-the-PoohAlan Alexander Milne2h 52m4.5 (401.1K)$3 · $0.00
Sitting PrettyRebekah Taussig7h 33m4.5 (18.9K)$26 · $0.00
You may also like
The Halloween TreeRay Bradbury, Jerry Robbins2h 2m4.4 (1.5K)$10 · $0.00
Twice-Told TalesNathaniel Hawthorne7h 59m4.0 (3.7K)$2 · $0.00
Peter Pan in Kensington GardensJ. M. Barrie2h 10m4.0 (19K)Free
PEER GYNT (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Henrik Ibsen7h 28m4.2 (37.5K)$2 · $0.00
40 novelleHans Christian10h 37m4.4 (433)$3.50 · $0.00
The Complete Poems of Rudyard Kipling – 570+ Titles in One Edition (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling23h 1m4.5 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain (Annotated)Mark Twain101h 53m4.6 (1.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Short Stories of E. F. Benson - 70+ Titles in One EditionE. F. Benson41h 37m4.1 (1.6K)$1 · $0.00
Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Short Stories in One Edition (Illustrated)Rudyard Kipling180h 47m$2 · $0.00
Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling180h 26m$2 · $0.00
Contemporary Russian NovelistsSerge Persky5h 26m$2 · $0.00
In the Pass of GhostsK.L. Noone1h 33m4.2 (86)$2 · $0.00
Under the RedwoodsBret Harte6h 52m4.0 (36)$2 · $0.00
Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Short Stories in One Edition (Illustrated) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling179h 19m$2 · $0.00
The man who sold his beardRafat Allam3m$7 · $0.00
Mark Twain: The Complete Novels (The Greatest Novelists of All Time – Book 5) (Annotated)Mark Twain98h 46m$1 · $0.00
Three Elephant Power, and Other StoriesA. B. Paterson3h 59m3.3 (10)$2 · $0.00
The Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Tales in One EditionRudyard Kipling179h 14m$1.99 · $0.00
In Colonial DaysNathaniel Hawthorne2h 18m3.0 (12)$2.30
HARVARD CLASSICS - All 20 Volumes in one Edition (Annotated)Henry James, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edward Everett Hale, Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland387h 7m4.4 (136)$2 · $0.00