The Essential Kipling

Over twenty unabridged selections of Rudyard Kipling’s stories, poems and letters, including famous works such as “If” and “How The Whale Got his Throat”.

1. PRELUDE – “To Departmental Ditties” (1885) read by Rupert Degas
2. TODS’ from “Plain Tales from the Hills” read by Martin Jarvis
3. THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST (1889) read by Rupert Degas
4. KIDKNAPPED from “Plain Tales from the Hills” read by Martin Jarvis
5. THE SONG OF THE SONS read by Rupert Degas
6. THE SONG OF THE CITIES read by Rupert Degas
7. ENGLAND’S ANSWER read by Rupert Degas
8. THE THREE MUSKETEERS from “Plain Tales from the Hills” read by Martin Jarvis
9. THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS from “Plain Tales of the Hills” read by Martin Jarvis
10. RECESSIONAL (1897) read by Rupert Degas
ANIMAL STORIES
1. THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE from the “Second Jungle Book” read by Rupert Degas
2. MOWGLI’S BROTHERS from “The Jungle Book” read by Rupert Degas
3. THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES (1911) read by Rupert Degas
4. HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT from the “Just So Stories” read by Rupert Degas
CHILDREN AND FAMILY
1. A SCHOOL SONG – prelude to “Stalky & Co.” read by Rupert Degas
2. THE PRODIGAL SON read by Rupert Degas
3. WEE WILLIE WINKIE, AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN read by Rupert Degas
4. THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF read by Liza Goddard
5. KIPLING’S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN, JOHN AND ELSIE read by Rupert Degas
6. MERROW DOWN read by Rupert Degas
7. IF read by Rupert Degas
WAR AND OTHER
1. LETTERS BETWEEN KIPLING AND HIS SON JOHN Read by Rupert Degas
2. THE GARDENER Read by Rupert Degas
3. EPITAPHS OF THE WAR (1914 – 1918) Read by Rupert Degas
4. JUSTICE (October, 1918) Read by Rupert Degas
5. THE FIRES Read by Rupert Degas
6. THE MARK OF THE BEAST Read by Richard Pasco