The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes (eBook)

Rudyard Kipling (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
22 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-633956779-5 (EAN)

Infos

Nobel Literature Prize winner Rudyard Kipling pens this riveting adventure tale. One evening Morrowbie Jukes, an English gentleman, is feeling a bit feverish and the barking of the dogs outside his house is upsetting him. So he mounts his horse in order to pursue them. The horse bolts and they eventually fall into a sandy ravine on the edge of a river. He awakens the next morning to find himself in a village of the living dead, where people who appear to have died of, for instance, cholera, but who revived when their bodies were about to be burned, are imprisoned. He quickly learns that it is impossible to climb out because of the sandy slope…

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.12.2023
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: 1880s works • Author's exotic tales • British colonialism • Classic • cultural exploration • dark humor • Historical • literary classic • mysterious village • short story collection • Supernatural survival • surreal adventure • Victorian Era