The Five Nations Vol I
Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His children’s stories and poems have been enduring expressions of his times, many tied to India, the country of his birth.
Five Nations is a collection of poems covering the wide range of the British Kingdom at the time, though there is some debate as to what the Five Nations refer. There are two groups of poems in these volumes, unnamed poems and the service poems. Many of these have military themes and range over many wars of the British Empire. (Summary by Larry Wilson) (1 hr 33 min)
Chapters
Dedication | 1:31 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Sea and the Hills | 2:40 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Bell Buoy | 3:47 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Cruisers | 3:23 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
The Destroyers | 3:35 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
White Horses | 3:37 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
The Second Voyage | 2:40 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
The Dykes | 3:51 | Read by zanap |
The Song of Diego Valdez | 4:28 | Read by zanap |
The Broken Men | 2:48 | Read by zanap |
The Feet of the Young Men | 5:21 | Read by zanap |
Truce of the Bear | 4:31 | Read by zanap |
The Old Men | 3:07 | Read by Shashank Jakhmola |
The Explorer | 6:30 | Read by Shashank Jakhmola |
The Wage-Slaves | 3:21 | Read by Shashank Jakhmola |
The Burial | 1:51 | Read by Shashank Jakhmola |
General Joubert | 1:19 | Read by nighthawks |
The Palace | 2:18 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Sussex | 3:54 | Read by Kelly Gawne |
Song of the Wise Children | 2:14 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Buddha at Kamakura | 3:38 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
The White Man's Burden | 2:59 | Read by nighthawks |
Pharaoh and the Sergeant | 3:31 | Read by Kelly Gawne |
Our Lady of the Snows | 2:22 | Read by April6090 |
'Et Dona Ferentes' | 3:16 | Read by Vinny Seeram |
Kitchener's School | 3:14 | Read by Vinny Seeram |
The Young Queen | 5:02 | Read by Dafni Ma |
Rimmon | 2:28 | Read by Kelly Gawne |