Rudyard Kipling

Captains Courageous

Herausgeber: 1st World Publishing

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Produktbeschreibung

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ~~~~~~The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet. "That Cheyne boy's the biggest nuisance aboard," said a man in a frieze overcoat, shutting the door with a bang. "He isn't wanted here. He's too fresh." A white-haired German reached for a sandwich, and grunted between bites: "I know der breed. Ameriga is full of dot kind. I deli you you should imbort ropes' ends free under your dariff." "Pshaw! There isn't any real harm to him. He's more to be pitied than anything," a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions under the wet skylight. "They've dragged him around from hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. I was talking to his mother this morning. She's a lovely lady, but she don't pretend to manage him. He's going to Europe to finish his education."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1st World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781421851273
• ISBN-10: 142185127X
• Artikelnr.: 39184942

Autorenporträt

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English artist, brief tale essayist, and author, primarily associated with his works for young children and supporting the British government. He was born in British India in the nineteenth century and was shipped off to England when he was six years old for his schooling. Later, he got back to India to start his profession as a columnist, however, shortly after coming here, he went back to his native country where he focused full time on writing. After his marriage, he lived for certain years in Vermont, USA, before returning to England. He was a skilled author whose books for children are respected as a work for children writing. It is accepted that at one point he was offered artist laureateship and on a few other events, he was considered for knighthood, yet he denied them. Be that as it may, he accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature, which made him the main English essayist to get the honour. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on 30th December, 1865 in Bombay (Mumbai), then known as British India. His parents named him after the Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, where they had met. His father, John Lockwood Kipling, was an artist and stoneware originator from North Yorkshire. After his marriage to Alice MacDonald, the young girl of Reverend George Browne MacDonald, they moved to India where he was delegated as a teacher of design form in the Jeejeebhoy School of Art. Rudyard had a sister, likewise named Alice, three years junior to him. Like most other British youngsters in India, they enjoyed most of the day with Indian babysitters and workers, paying attention to the extraordinary stories they told in their local tongue and exploring neighbourhood markets with them. Subsequently, Rudyard turned out to be more fluent in their language than in English. However, every one of these changed unexpectedly in 1871, when both the siblings were sent to homes in England to be instructed under the British framework. Showing up in England in October, they set up with Captain Pryse Agar Holloway and his significant other Sarah, who boarded offspring of British nationals serving in India in their home at Southsea, Portsmouth. Here he confessed to a school, however, found it difficult to change. Life at the cultivated home was difficult by the same token. ...