Spartan Stories

Here at Spartan Stories, you will find stories about groups or individuals who kept strictly to something. Besides warriors, combatants or fighters, in a broader sense think of people with a code of honor or a set of rules designed for extreme performance or to prevent determined sick behavior.

Stories about survival in difficult circumstances. Stories where clever tactical choices excel.

Naturally you will also find very tall tales, those that seem almost impossible. True Spartan stories.

A collection of historical and modern tales, legends and descriptions of cultures. Including historical adventures or alternate history rooted in the past as can be found in the Swashbuckling Historical genre, even fantasy stories such as can be found in the Sword and Sorcery (S & S) genre, or stories on distant planets as can be found in the Planetary Romance genre.

Not all stories are written by us or our visitors, the copyrights of course belong to their authors. We also provide stories from well known writers such as Robert E. Howard, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling and other great writers in the public domain. Be advised to check the copyright laws in your own country.

We hope you enjoy reading.

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• Rudyard Kipling - The Second Jungle Book

  The Second Jungle Book is a collection of short stories of Rudyard Kipling and is widely known as an adventure masterpiece. It features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat", "The Undertakers" and "Quiquern", all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. This book is less well-known than the original. (By Don on 2010-07-24.)

• Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book

  The Jungle Book is a collection of short stories of Rudyard Kipling and is widely known as an adventure masterpiece. The best-known of these stories are the three revolving around the adventures of an abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler and Kotick, The White Seal seeking for his people a haven where they would be safe from hunters. (By Don on 2010-06-24.)

• Rudyard Kipling - In the Rukh

  In the Rukh is a short story of Rudyard Kipling and is the first Mowgli story ever written. In the Rukh describes how Gisborne, an English forest ranger in India at the time of the British Raj, discovers a young man named Mowgli, who has extraordinary skill at hunting and tracking, and asks him to join the forestry service. Later Gisborne learns the reason for Mowgli's almost superhuman talents: he was raised by a pack of wolves in the jungle. (By Don on 2010-05-24.)