Thrilling Tales - A Selection of Hair-raising Adventures by Ruskin Bond


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ProductID: 19045 - Paperback - 220 Pages (Year: 2006)
Rupa ~ ISBN: 8129109700

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The test of a good story, Ruskin Bond says, is when a writer is able to catch a young reader’s attention from page one, preferably paragraph one, and hold it to the end. Each one of the stories that he has included in this collection pass this test, and with flying colours.

Spine-tingling, unputdownable tales, this, collection takes you from a woman’s struggle against the elements in the cold, snow-swept Prairies, to the thick of a jungle where a man bored with hunting animals decides, instead, to hunt a fellow human. Filled with conflict, suspense and adventure, Thrilling Tales: A Selection of Hair-Raising Adventures is a page-turner from beginning to end.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
RUDYARD KIPLING

Jeremy and the Runaways
HUGH WALPOLE

The Beast Tamer
NIKOLAI S LESKOV

Nightmare in New York
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD

The Falcon and I
JEAN GEORGE

Adventure Underground
SYLVIA GREEN

The Eye of the Eagle
RUSKIN BOND

Irongut and the Brown Mouse
GERALD KERSH

So We’ll Drink
P K KEMP

An Underground Episode
EDMUND WARE

The Lights of Spencer Primmett’s Eyes
F ANSTEY

The Last Match
EDWARD RITZ-GERALD FRIPP

The Most Dangerous Game
RICHARD CONNELL

About the Author

Born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, RUSKIN BOND grew up in Jamnagar, Dehra Dun and Shimla. His first novel. ' Room on the Roof', written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over three hundred short stories, essays and novellas, and more than thirty books for children. He has also published two volumes of autobiography, 'Scenes from a Writer's Life', which describes his formative years growing up in Anglo-Indian, and 'The Lamp is Lit', a collection of essays and episodes from his journal.

He received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing in India, and was awarded Padma Shree in 1999.

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