Rudyard Kipling
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The toast of literary London at age 21, Rudyard Kipling won numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. When a spoiled millionaire's son falls overboard from a luxury liner and is rescued by a fishing schooner, he learns the true value of honesty, courage, and hard work. Over 4 million Tor Classics have been sold since 1986. Unabridged edition.
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Drawing from the oral storytelling traditions of India and Africa, Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's vigorous, amusing tales offer imaginative answers to unanswered questions about animals and provide little pearls of wisdom. Kipling began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter. Over 100 years later, these classic tales, filled with playfully clever animals and people, are still...
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Why Poetry? Easy answer: I love poetry. I love reading it. I love memorizing it. I love hearing great actors recite it. As the poet Mark Strand wrote, "Ink runs from the corners of my mouth / There is no happiness like mine / I have been eating poetry."
In the past, when I was full from the eating, I have had the audacity to set poetry to music. But, in this production, you will hear the music of the poems. Poetry unadorned. Words. Because in
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