Rudyard Kipling

Sea Warfare

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Produktbeschreibung

This book contains a collection of essays and verse on the topic of sea warfare written by Rudyard Kipling. It is both a factual account of nautical manoeuvres during World War One and a poetic masterpiece, and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of Kipling's work. The essays of this collection include: "The Fringes of the Fleet" (1915), "Tales of The Trade" (1916), and "Destroyers at Jutland" (1916). 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 volume now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hesperides Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 191g
• ISBN-13: 9781406721461
• ISBN-10: 1406721468
• Artikelnr.: 22538381

Autorenporträt

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.