Rudyard Kipling

The Day's Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This vintage book contains a collection of Rudyard Kipling's short stories, first published in 1898. This volume would make for a great addition to any bookshelf, and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of Kipling's work. The stories contained herein include: "The Bridge-Builders", "A Walking Delegate", "The Ship that Found Herself", "The Tomb of His Ancestors", "The Devil and the Deep Sea", "William the Conqueror - Part I", "William the Conqueror - Part II", "007", "The Maltese Cat", and more. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was a seminal English short-story writer, novelist, and poet. He is most famous for writing 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 book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peffer Press
• Seitenzahl: 466
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781409725787
• ISBN-10: 1409725782
• Artikelnr.: 25412441

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 41, 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.