Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Would Be King

Herausgeber: Montefiore, Jan

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Produktbeschreibung

Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This title brings together some of the best of his short writings, including "The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat", "Baa Baa, Black Sheep", "Mary Postgate" and "The Gardener".

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780141442358
• ISBN-10: 0141442352
• Artikelnr.: 32552345

Autorenporträt

RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in 1865. In 1871 he was brought home from India and spent five unhappy years with a foster family in Southsea, an experience he later drew on in The Light That Failed (1890). In 1882 Kipling started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907. He died in 1936. JAN MONTEFIOIRE was born in 1948 and educated at Oxford. Since 1978 she has taught at the University of Kent, where she is now Professor of 20th Century English Literature. She is the author of Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and Mind:Selected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition, 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007). She lives in Canterbury.