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Kaa is a fictional character from The Jungle Book stories written by Rudyard Kipling.He is a giant snake who is 30 ft (9.1 m) long. In the books and many of the screen adaptations, Kaa is an ally of protagonist Mowgli, acting as a friend and trusted mentor or father figure alongside Bagheera and Baloo.
Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Ка́мера обску́ра, Camera obscura) is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in Sovremennye zapiski in 1932. [ 1 ] The first English translation, Camera Obscura , was made by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 by Johnathan Long, the paperback imprint of Hutchinson ...
The Dark Prophecy is an American fantasy novel based on Greek and Roman mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. It was published on May 2, 2017, and is the second book in The Trials of Apollo series, the second spin-off of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. The book and its cover art by John Rocco were first
Following the twins' deaths, a posse drove the snakes to a shell beach at the north end of the island where they were wiped out. While walking the following day, Vic finds Alita's corpse in her driveway next to the stroller; he summons the police, who remove the body and lock the stroller in Alita's garage.
A print showing cats and mice from a 1501 German edition of Aesop's Fables. This list of fictional rodents is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and covers all rodents, including beavers, mice, chipmunks, gophers, guinea pigs, hamsters, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines and squirrels, as well as extinct or prehistoric species.
The stories in The Jungle Book were inspired in part by the ancient Indian fable texts such as the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. [7] For example, an older moral-filled mongoose and snake version of the "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" story by Kipling is found in Book 5 of Panchatantra. [8] In a letter to the American author Edward Everett Hale, Kipling ...
Here's everything to know about 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' prequel book and how it connects to original Hunger Games trilogy. Everything You Need to Know About ‘The ...
You Like It Darker is a collection of twelve stories by American author Stephen King, published by Scribner in May 2024. [1] The book was announced on November 6, 2023, via Entertainment Weekly, which provided a look at the book's wraparound cover, table of contents, and an excerpt from "Rattlesnakes", a sequel to King's 1981 novel Cujo.