Project Gutenberg 2004-08-02 Public domain in the USA. 203 Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 Kipling, R. (Rudyard) Kipling, Joseph Rudyard A Diversity of Creatures Reading ease score: 83.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. As Easy as ABC -- MacDonough's Song -- Friendly Brook -- The Land -- In the Same Boat -- 'Helen all Alone' -- The Honours of War -- The Children -- The Dog Hervey -- The Comforters -- The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat -- The Press -- In the Presence -- Jobson's Amen -- Regulus -- A Translation -- The Edge of the Evening -- Rebirth -- The Horse Marines -- The Legend of Mirth -- 'My Son's Wife' -- The Floods -- The Fabulists -- The Vortex -- The Song of Seven Cities -- 'Swept and Garnished' -- Mary Postgate -- The Beginnings. E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo, Charlie Kirschner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "A Diversity of Creatures" by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of short stories penned in the early 20th century. This anthology showcases Kipling's trademark narrative style, blending humor, philosophy, and social commentary to explore the human condition and the peculiarities of life on Earth through various vignettes highlighting the interaction between people and their environments. At the start of the work, the reader is introduced to a futuristic setting in the year 2065, where a governing body known as the Aërial Board of Control oversees planetary operations. The opening story, "As Easy as ABC," focuses on a situation where the District of Northern Illinois has disconnected itself from the planetary network, raising concerns about invasion of privacy. The Board quickly assembles a team to investigate, leading to a comical and chaotic interaction with the local populace, which reveals their fierce independence and resistance to interference. This sets the stage for a narrative that engages with themes of governance, individual freedom, and the consequences of societal structures. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en English poetry Short stories, English PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry Browsing: Fiction 664192 658840 2024-10-06T06:10:39.180549 2023-10-06T07:46:10.768255 text/html text/html 654377 2020-12-18T00:40:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 257355 2020-12-18T00:40:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 342649 2024-10-06T06:10:51.470506 application/epub+zip 351833 2024-10-06T06:10:42.699565 application/epub+zip 340049 2024-10-06T06:10:41.238561 application/epub+zip 615667 2024-10-06T06:10:57.684442 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 617628 2024-10-06T06:10:50.505555 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 573980 2022-09-07T00:08:44.162480 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 621399 621297 2024-10-06T06:10:36.881593 2023-10-06T07:46:08.853215 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 621103 2020-12-18T00:40:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 249958 2020-12-18T00:40:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 621115 2020-12-18T00:40:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 249901 2020-12-18T00:40:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22259 2024-10-06T06:10:57.818632 application/rdf+xml 14160 2024-10-06T06:10:41.847536 image/jpeg 3766 2024-10-06T06:10:41.542533 image/jpeg 336307 2024-10-06T06:10:39.237569 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia