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"Des histoires comme ça" sont des histoires destinées aux enfants. Elles font partie des œuvres de Kipling les plus connues. De nombreuses histoires sont adressées à sa "mieux-aimée" car elles furent d'abord écrites pour la fille de Kipling, Joséphine... L'imaginaire côtoie l'insolite, pour le plus grand bonheur des enfants, qui trouveront ici matière à rêver, à penser, à questionner. On apprend enfin pourquoi le chameau n'a qu'une bosse, pourquoi le léopard a des tâches, et bien d'autres inventions poétiques toutes aussi fantaisistes.

Contenu : "Comment la baleine acquit son gosier", "Comment le shameau acquit sa bosse", "Comment le rhinocéros acquit sa peau", "Comment le léopard acquit ses tâches", "L'enfant d'éléphant".

L'Enfant d'Eléphant est extrait d'Histoires comme ça, un recueil de nouvelles qui expliquent le pourquoi...

Critically acclaimed audiobook reader Barnaby Edwards (Doctor Who, The Voyage of the Beagle, Space Danger) performs 11 tales of ghostly gothic spookiness. From tales of vampyres and spirits to devil’s deals and ethereal coachmen. Short but oh so sweet, these 11 stories from some of the most lauded authors of the Gothic period prove that you need only a few pages to tell a truly terrifying tale.

Mark Redfield performs an eclectic mix of story excerpts, poems, and favorite readings of some of his favorite British and American storytellers.

Captains Courageous is Rudyard Kipling’s classic fable of a boy’s initiation into the fellowship of men, played out on the high seas of the late 1800s. When he falls overboard from a luxury liner, Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of an American millionaire, is rescued by a small New England fishing schooner. To earn his keep, Harvey must prove his worth in the only way the skipper and his hardy crew will accept: through the grueling mastery of a fisherman’s skills.

A moment of drunken disrespect sets the stage for the battle for the soul of a man in this Rudyard Kipling classic! A multicast, fully soundscaped audio drama!

Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky and Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a trio of poetic pranksters, "Stalky", "Beetle", and "Turkey", as they wage war on fellow students and the "establishment" with unwavering energy and creativity.

The poor elephant's child, always in trouble for his insatiable curiosity, ventures to the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo River to find the answers to his very important question: "What do crocodiles have for dinner?" The answer may be more than he can handle!

Volume ten launches with Doug Bradley's well-researched insight into the stories and their authors. This is followed by HP Lovecraft's evocative tale of exploration, "The Strange High House in the Mist". Next we hear Ambrose Bierce's truly chilling "A Diagnosis of Death", and Jeffery Combs reads Edgar Allan Poe's classic revenge tale, "The Cask of Amontillado".

This is a story from the Just So Stories collection.

While spending the night in an eerie, decrepit, old bungalow in late 19th-century India, the narrator tells how he begins to hear the unmistakable sounds of a billiard game in the locked adjoining room. It's a room that was once a billiard-room where one of the sahibs is said to have died in the midst of a game... and is believed to have become a ghost.

At the turn of the century, the short story form gained enormous popularity. Against the frozen Alaskan landscape of "To Build a Fire", a miner struggles to survive the splintering whiteness of sub-zero temperatures. "Isle of Voices" captures the Hawaii of old, where magic transports a young man to an island of powerful spirits. "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" pits a mongoose against a cobra in the steamy beauty of an Indian garden. Recorded Books’ award-winning narrators turn these stories into absorbing productions.

This is a story from the Just So Stories collection.

This is a story from the Just So Stories collection.

Welcome to Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Volume Six, part of the world's largest collection of high-quality, classic horror audiobooks. Are you ready for our latest installment of enthralling horror masterpieces? Good, then we'll begin with Doug's well researched and passionate introduction to the authors and stories in this volume. This is closely followed by his literary majesty, Edgar Allen Poe, with the well known classic tale "The Pit and the Pendulum".

This is a story from the Just So Stories collection.

Here's a humorous collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, the man behind the much-loved Just So Stories. "The Elephant's Child" tells the charming story of a baby elephant whose curiosity gets the best of him, while "The Cat Who Walked by Himself" tells the fanciful story of a cat who lived during a time when men lived in caves and all animals were wild.

This is a story from the Just So Stories collection.

This is a story from the Just So Stories collection.