❞ رواية The Jungle Book ❝ ⏤ Rudyard Kipling

هذا القسم يحتوي علي العديد من القصص والروايات باللغة الإنجليزية

(Stories and novels) القصص والروايات
الرواية هي سرد نثري طويل يصف شخصيات خيالية أو واقعية وأحداثاً على شكل قصة متسلسلة، كما أنها أكبر الأجناس القصصية من حيث الحجم وتعدد الشخصيات وتنوع الأحداث، وقد ظهرت في أوروبا بوصفها جنساً أدبياً مؤثراً في القرن الثامن عشر، والرواية حكاية تعتمد السرد بما فيه من وصف وحوار وصراع بين الشخصيات وما ينطوي عليه ذلك من تأزم وجدل وتغذيه الأحداث
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance, which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.

A dictionary definition is "an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot."

The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella (a shorter novel), authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques.

The Jungle Book

It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the
Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest,
scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her
four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into
the mouth of the cave where they all lived. ‘Augrh!’ said Father Wolf. ‘It is time to hunt again.’ He was going to spring
down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the
threshold and whined: ‘Good luck go with you, O Chief of
the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with
noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this
world.’
It was the jackal—Tabaqui, the Dish-licker—and the
wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of
leather from the village rubbish-heaps. But they are afraid
of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the
jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was
ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting
everything in his way. Even the tiger runs and hides when
little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful
thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee—the madness— and run.
‘Enter, then, and look,’ said Father Wolf stiffly, ‘but there
is no food here.’