20th Century Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140183132 ISBN 13: 9780140183139

Publisher: Penguin Classic, 1990

Synopsis

Rudyard Kipling is undoubtedly among the great short story writers in the English language. This collection opens with "The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," the first story Kipling published as a young journalist in India, and ends with an acknowledged masterpiece, "The Gardener," written 50 years later in the aftermath of the Great War. The stories of the intervening years show an extraordinary range of subject matter and technique, from his exploration of the tragic loves of Englishmen and Indian women in "Lispeth" and "Without Benefit of Clergy" to political fables, like "The Mother Hive," and psychological case histories, such as "Mary Postgate." Above all, these stories reveal Kipling's ability to enter imaginatively into the minds of characters whose lives and values were radically different from his own-his willingness, as he himself once said, "to think in another man's skin."

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About the Author

Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 but spent most of his childhood in England. He returned to India in 1881 as a journalist and also wrote stories, sketches and poems. His literary reputation was established with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). Today he is best remembered for The Jungle Book and Kim. He was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classic
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140183132
• ISBN 13: 9780140183139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 525
• Editor: Ed Rutherford Andrew