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The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes

Rudyard Kipling

Editora: e-artnow

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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…

Disponível desde: 07/12/2023.

Comprimento de impressão: 22 páginas.

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