Capitani coraggiosi

CUCCIOLO D’UOMO CRESCE Questa ‘still’ di Spencer Tracy insieme a Freddie Bartholomey al timone della nave è l’immagine più famosa del film. Tra i suoi due romanzi più famosi, Il libro della giungla del 1894 e Kim del 1901, si colloca questo Capitani coraggiosi del 1897. Kipling è un cantore del Common Leggi tutto

Harvey Cheyne Jr. an arrogant fifteen -year- old, greatly disliked by the annoyed passengers, spoiled son of a multi -millionaire railroad tycoon from San Diego, ( my hometown) is being taken to Europe by his parents on a luxury liner, a steamship, set in the late nineteenth century. As they enter t Leggi tutto

I'm writing this review to honour the likes that my friends have bestowed upon this book. I tried to take part in a bookish bingo challenge, and, patting myself on the back, I got this Rudyard Kipling booklet. How awful could it get, right? It was so poorly paced that I thought I was reading a 900 p Leggi tutto

I read most of this aloud to my older boys as I was putting them to sleep at night, and I think that's probably the best way to navigate through Kipling's tale. It's a lot of fun, but if you're reading silently, not trying on the accents as Kipling's written them, I think you miss a lot. This book i Leggi tutto

This was a book I read as background for teaching British Literature, back when Barb and I were homeschooling our girls. My prior acquaintance with Kipling consisted of having read The Jungle Book as a kid, plus some of his short and short-ish fiction and a handful of his poems. (Though this novella Leggi tutto

A story of how one 15-year-old rich boy's moment of bad luck changes his life, from spoiled brat to a mature, better person with solid values who can work well with others and doesn't need to prove his worth with questionable things and boasting. Forced to spend a summer with fishermen (no radios or Leggi tutto

This is Kipling's only novel concerning North America. It is consistent with his others in the underlying theme that experience is the great teacher. Harvey Cheyne is a coddled adolescent whose parents' wealth he takes for granted. The bulk of the story concerns his going over the rail on an Atlanti Leggi tutto

Second reading November 2016 First reading: August 2014 I didn't really expect to love a sailor's story but clearly I didn't have any idea how much Leadership Education can be cultivated on the dangerous fishing lines of the Atlantic. The book is totally different than anything else I have read by Ki Leggi tutto

Finished reading this with the kids. Enjoyed it, just didn't love it. The last section should have ended about 20 pages earlier. It was like Kipling hit the natural climax for the story and then felt he needed to write another twenty pages to make somebody happy and decided to just phone-it-in (or t Leggi tutto

Another book that I listened to on my morning walk. Trying to add to my list of books that I think that I've read but actually hadn't read. The idea for this story was better than the actual telling of it. Love the idea of a rich, entitled boy learning to work for his keep. But this book seemed to h Leggi tutto