The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421843072 ISBN 13: 9781421843070

Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years' service a man is directly or indirectly acquainted with the two or three hundred Civilians in his Province, all the Messes of ten or twelve Regiments and Batteries, and some fifteen hundred other people of the non-official caste. In ten years his knowledge should be doubled, and at the end of twenty he knows, or knows something about, every Englishman in the Empire, and may travel anywhere and everywhere without paying hotel-bills. Globe-trotters who expect entertainment as a right, have, even within my memory, blunted this open-heartedness, but none the less to-day, if you belong to the Inner Circle and are neither a Bear nor a Black Sheep, all houses are open to you, and our small world is very, very kind and helpful.

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author, poet, journalist, and Nobel Prize-winning writer whose fiction and verse became central to English-language literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Bombay and educated in England, Kipling drew upon imperial, military, journalistic, and childhood experience in works ranging from The Jungle Book and Kim to poems, short stories, fables, and children's literature. His prose is known for rhythm, verbal energy, narrative compression, and a powerful command of voice.Kipling's books for children remain among his most widely read works. Just So Stories shows him at his most playful and inventive, using repetition, comic exaggeration, mythic explanation, animal lore, and storyteller's intimacy to create tales that feel both ancient and entirely his own. For readers of classic children's books, animal stories, literary fairy tales, and early twentieth-century British fiction, Kipling remains a major and complicated figure: brilliant, influential, stylistically unmistakable, and deeply embedded in the literary history of his age.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1421843072
• ISBN 13: 9781421843070
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Herausgeber: 1stworld Library
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