Barrack-Room Ballads - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451528867 ISBN 13: 9780451528865

Publisher: Signet Classics, 2003

Synopsis

A brilliant collection of poems, originally published in 1892, provides profound insight into the lives of British soldiers, who were held in low regard by the Victorian public, detailing their courage, honor, and heroism while criticizing the English empire for their blatant disrespect of these valiant men. Original.

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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

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0451528867
• ISBN 13: 9780451528865
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128