Rudyard Kipling

The City of Dreadful Night and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The City of Dreadful Night paints a gritty, dark picture of a hot summer night within a walled city in the Orient. The narrator steps over sleeping people which mimic corpsesand vividly depicts what he sees, feels, and hears in this death-like city. Also included in this collection are The Giridih Coal-Fields and Among the Railway Folk, reports from a trip Kipling made to the East India Railway Company's coal fields and headquarters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411439313
• Artikelnr.: 43815276

Autorenporträt

Rudyard Kipling (18651936), called the prophet of British imperialism by George Orwell, became a pastmaster of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and Gunga Din.