The Light That Failed (Classics) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140185127 ISBN 13: 9780140185126

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1992

Synopsis

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1891 edition by Heinemann and Balestier, Leipzig.

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About the Author

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems including Mandalay, Gunga Din, and Danny Deeverwhich made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kimwhich became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in 1936

Review

Novel by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1890. The book, which includes autobiographical elements, describes the youth and manhood of Dick Heldar and traces his efforts as a war correspondent and artist whose sketches of British battles in the Sudan become popular. When he returns to London, he begins painting his masterpiece, racing against time because a battle wound has caused his eyesight to progressively fail. Kipling wrote two separate endings to The Light That Failed, a happy ending for the version published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in January 1890 and an unhappy ending for the version published in book form a few months later. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140185127
• ISBN 13: 9780140185126
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Lyon John