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Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409772195 ISBN 13: 9781409772194

Publisher: Cornford Press, 2015

Synopsis

This volume contains a collection of short stories written by the seminal English poet and author, Rudyard Kipling. The stories are varied in their themes and range from supernatural tales to science fiction. This wonderful collection is worthy of a place on any bookshelf, and will be of particular value to fans and collectors of Kipling's work. The stories include: “An Habitation Enforced”, “The Recall”, “Garm – A Hostage”, “The Power of the Dog”, “The Mother Hive”, “The Bees and the Flies”, “With the Night Mail”, “The Four Angels”, “A Deal in Cotton”, “The New Knighthood”, and many more. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was a seminal English short-story writer, novelist, and poet. He is most famous for writing many stories and poems concerning British soldiers in India. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

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About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888).[2] His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "Kipling is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornford Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409772195
• ISBN 13: 9781409772194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326