Kipling's Fantasy: Stories by Rudyard Kipling - Hardcover

Kipling, Rudyard; Brunner, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312853548 ISBN 13: 9780312853549

Publisher: Tor Books, 1992

Synopsis

One of the finest writers in the English language, Rudyard Kipling was the first British author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1907). From children's stories to adult romances, from tales of ordinary men and women to tales of the supernatural, the scope and breadth of his work has rarely been equalled.
Kipling's mastery of his craft lies in his eye for telling detail. Whether he writes of an exotic land at the ends of the earth or of everyday England, of heaven or hell or anywhere in between, he brings it all home to the reader.
This selection of his fantasy stories ranges from pre-history through mythology to the present" of the early 1900s, from England to Australia to India, from comedy to tragedy to simple human courage.
Rudyard Kipling has tales to tell, and he tells them with a sure hand. They have been and continue to be an enduring delight and inspiration to many generations of readers and writers.

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YA-- Sci-fi/fantasy writer Brunner has selected 12 tales for this companion volume to his Kipling's Science Fiction (TOR, 1992). Each short story is preceded by a brief notation that highlights Kipling's life at that time or a unique literary aspect of the story. These selections cover a wide range within the fantasy genre, including morality tales, humor, and ghost stories. Although the book may have a limited YA readership, repackaging these classics may give old staples some new recognition.

Carol Beall, Immanuel Christian School, Springfield, VA

Copyright 1993 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Every bit as entertaining and instructive as Kipling's Science Fiction, also edited by Brunner (Fiction Forecasts, Sept. 28), this volume presents an impressive selection of genre fiction from a master storyteller. Its entries range from such fables as ``The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo'' from Just So Stories , which explains how the kangaroo got its long hind legs, to such ghost stories as the very traditional ``By Word of Mouth'' and the more innovative `` `They,' '' in which a lonely woman lives in a house full of the ghosts of dead children, to ``The Children of the Zodiac,'' which features astrological deities in a mythic setting. An excellent tale of prehistoric Britain, ``The Knife and the Naked Chalk,'' relates how the early shepherds drove off the wolves; it attains power by focusing on the plight of the hero, who saves his people at great personal cost. The finest story, appropriately enough, is titled `` `The Finest Story in the World' '': here, dreams, intimations of past lives and frustrated writerly ambitions enrich the plot and dramatize tragic themes.

Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312853548
• ISBN 13: 9780312853549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206