The Wish House and Other Stories - Kipling, Rudyard
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Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling's finest works, including the stories "In the House of Suddhoo,” "The Disturber of Traffic,” and "The Eye of Allah,” the poems "The Runners,” "The Return of the Children,” and "The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, "The Man Who Would Be King.” Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, "We need to think about Kipling. He…mehr

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Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling's finest works, including the stories "In the House of Suddhoo,” "The Disturber of Traffic,” and "The Eye of Allah,” the poems "The Runners,” "The Return of the Children,” and "The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, "The Man Who Would Be King.” Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, "We need to think about Kipling. He is our greatest short-story writer, but one whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognize.”
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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. ...
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