Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]

Classic Audiobook Collection

05/01/23

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217m

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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.

Genre: folklore

Just So Stories is Rudyard Kipling's sparkling collection of origin tales - playful, rhythmic, and full of mischief - that explain how the world got its quirks. In these classic bedtime adventures, curious animals and headstrong people collide with the forces of nature to create the traits we recognize today: an elephant child whose endless questions lead to a life-changing tug-of-war, a camel who learns the cost of saying 'Humph,' a whale outwitted by a clever castaway, and more. Kipling's narrator speaks directly to the listener with a conspiratorial wink, weaving refrains, jokes, and vivid exaggerations that feel like stories told aloud by a master entertainer. Beneath the humor and fantasy is a steady beat of themes: curiosity and consequence, cleverness versus stubbornness, and the unpredictable ways small choices can reshape a life. Inventive, warm, and wonderfully theatrical, this audiobook-friendly classic invites families and longtime fans alike to settle in and hear how the leopard got his spots - and why the stories are told 'just so.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:54) Chapter 02

(00:15:48) Chapter 03

(00:22:25) Chapter 04

(00:37:44) Chapter 05

(00:56:42) Chapter 06

(01:06:05) Chapter 07

(01:26:02) Chapter 08

(01:49:37) Chapter 09

(02:13:42) Chapter 10

(02:38:30) Chapter 11

(03:05:29) Chapter 12

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Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

April 28, 2023

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421m

Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Abaft the Funnel gathers Rudyard Kipling's sharp-eyed tales and sketches of men living where comfort ends and work begins: on ships running the China seas, in steamy ports, and in the cramped social worlds that travel with the British Empire. The opening pieces drop you aboard the Whanghoa, where a ship's routine is thrown delightfully off-balance by Erastasius, a cat with a gift for mischief and an instinct for finding trouble. citeturn1view0 From there, Kipling shifts tone and latitude: a smoky night in Manila, a hard lesson in responsibility, and portraits of officers, drifters, and professionals whose reputations can rise or collapse on a single choice. One narrator, in a late-hour dive, recognizes a ruined stranger by the coded fellowship of their shared schooling and listens as the man edges toward confession. citeturn0search3 Across the collection, Kipling writes with brisk humor and sudden seriousness, peering past the polished decks and parlor talk to the pressures below - pride, duty, appetite, fear, and the price of belonging. These stories are less about grand voyages than the human machinery that keeps them moving. citeturn1view0

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:53) Chapter 02

(00:21:06) Chapter 03

(00:27:33) Chapter 04

(00:35:06) Chapter 05

(00:43:20) Chapter 06

(00:52:45) Chapter 07

(01:03:33) Chapter 08

(01:11:58) Chapter 09

(01:24:15) Chapter 10

(01:32:59) Chapter 11

(01:40:03) Chapter 12

(01:49:01) Chapter 13

(02:00:34) Chapter 14

(02:14:16) Chapter 15

(02:35:31) Chapter 16

(02:59:05) Chapter 17

(03:22:35) Chapter 18

(03:51:19) Chapter 19

(04:01:24) Chapter 20

(04:04:55) Chapter 21

(04:45:22) Chapter 22

(04:52:56) Chapter 23

(05:00:15) Chapter 24

(05:09:35) Chapter 25

(05:20:38) Chapter 26

(05:31:04) Chapter 27

(05:47:15) Chapter 28

(05:55:42) Chapter 29

(06:06:16) Chapter 30

(06:16:17) Chapter 31

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Kim by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

May 2, 2023

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801m

Kim by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Orphaned and streetwise, Kimball O'Hara - known to everyone simply as Kim - grows up in the crowded, shifting world of British India, drifting between cultures with an easy talent for languages, disguises, and friendships. When he meets an aging Tibetan lama searching for a holy river said to bring spiritual freedom, Kim becomes his devoted chela, guiding him across the subcontinent's bazaars, temples, and mountain roads. But Kim's gift for slipping unnoticed through every layer of society draws the attention of British intelligence, pulling him into the covert contest of the Great Game as rival powers maneuver for influence beyond the northern frontier. Torn between loyalty to the lama's peaceful quest and the dangerous work he is trained to do, Kim must decide what kind of life - and what kind of self - he will claim. Vivid, panoramic, and rich with travel, humor, and tension, Kipling's classic follows a boy coming of age amid clashing empires and spiritual longing, asking whether identity is inherited, chosen, or performed, and what it costs to serve more than one master.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:37:23) Chapter 01

(01:11:31) Chapter 02

(01:50:49) Chapter 03

(02:39:29) Chapter 04

(02:59:16) Chapter 04

(03:29:15) Chapter 05

(03:51:31) Chapter 05

(04:18:51) Chapter 06

(05:02:59) Chapter 07

(05:44:33) Chapter 08

(06:29:49) Chapter 09

(06:56:51) Chapter 09

(07:24:25) Chapter 10

(08:10:46) Chapter 11

(08:48:40) Chapter 11

(09:10:46) Chapter 12

(09:46:31) Chapter 12

(10:16:52) Chapter 13

(10:44:47) Chapter 13

(11:13:34) Chapter 14

(12:01:38) Chapter 15

(12:28:29) Chapter 15

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