Strange Tales
Description
Some six or seven feet above the port bulwarks, framed in fog, and as utterly unsupported as the full moon, hung a Face. It was not human, and it certainly was not animal, for it did not belong to this earth as known to man'Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings. This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghosts, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical locale of India, to the leafy suburbs of England and then to the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War, Kipling provides us with a chilling array of experiences and images which will linger long in the memory.
Subjects
Subjects
More Details
Contributors:
ISBN:
9781848705081
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | 72f48eec-96e3-0346-e056-308efc115028 |
---|---|
Grouping Title | strange tales |
Grouping Author | rudyard kipling |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-01-26 15:04:47PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-29 23:00:33PM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
author
Kipling, Rudyard
author2-role
hoopla digital
author_display
Kipling, Rudyard
display_description
Some six or seven feet above the port bulwarks, framed in fog, and as utterly unsupported as the full moon, hung a Face. It was not human, and it certainly was not animal, for it did not belong to this earth as known to man'Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings. This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghosts, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical locale of India, to the leafy suburbs of England and then to the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War, Kipling provides us with a chilling array of experiences and images which will linger long in the memory.
format_category_eh
eBook
format_eh
eBook
id
72f48eec-96e3-0346-e056-308efc115028
isbn
9781848705081
last_indexed
2024-04-30T05:00:33.052Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Fiction
literary_form_full
Fiction
local_time_since_added_eh
Year
primary_isbn
9781848705081
publishDate
2012
publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Electronic books
title_display
Strange Tales
title_full
Strange Tales [electronic resource] / David Stuart Davies and Rudyard Kipling
title_short
Strange Tales
topic_facet
Electronic books
Solr Details Tables
item_details
Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Loc | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hoopla:MWT11405989 | Online Hoopla Collection | Online Hoopla | eBook | eBook | 1 | false | true | Hoopla | https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11405989?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435 | Available Online |
record_details
Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hoopla:MWT11405989 | eBook | eBook | English | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | 2012 | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
scoping_details_eh
Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Local Url |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hoopla:MWT11405989 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | false | false | false | false |