Barrack-Room Ballads - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605979309 ISBN 13: 9781605979304

Verlag: Book Jungle, 2008

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First collected in 1892, Kipling's "Barrack-Room Ballads" relive the experiences of soldiers sent around the world to defend the Empire-all for little pay and less appreciation. An immediate success, they were unlike anything the public had seen before.

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 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). 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.

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• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1605979309
• ISBN 13: 9781605979304
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 84
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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