The Portable Kipling (Portable Library) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

 
9780140150971: The Portable Kipling (Portable Library)

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A Penguin Classic

The Portable Kipling
contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three; more than twenty stories, including “The Man Who Would Be King,” “The Cat that Walked by Himself,” “The Eye of Allah,”and the unsettling “Mary Postgate”; more than fifty poems; and three essays. The volume also includes a complete chronology and a critical introduction by Irving Howe that permits us to see the formal achievements of Kipling's work as well as to enjoy its abundant pleasures—not least of which is the sheer satisfaction of great storytelling.

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in India, although educated in England. He was a prolific writer and recognized as a genius. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His many books for children includeJust So Stories and Kim.

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ISBN 10:  0670413739 ISBN 13:  9780670413737
Verlag: Viking Adult, 1982
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