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Kipling Rudyard
The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories Of Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories Of Rudyard Kipling
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Description: Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh cruel vividly realized world of the Indian stories that made his name through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly - wrought subtleties of his later pieces. Including the tale of insanity and empire The Man Who Would Be King' the high - spirited The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat' the fable of childhood cruelty and revenge Baa Baa Black Sheep' the menacing psychological study Mary Postgate and the ambiguous portrayal of grief and mourning in The Gardener' here are stories of criminals ghosts femmes fatales madness and murder.
Title: The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories Of Rudyard Kipling
Author(s): Kipling Rudyard, Jan Montefiore
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141442358
Pages: 624 Pages
Publication Date: 7/26/2011
Category: Classic Fiction
Description: Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh cruel vividly realized world of the Indian stories that made his name through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly - wrought subtleties of his later pieces. Including the tale of insanity and empire The Man Who Would Be King' the high - spirited The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat' the fable of childhood cruelty and revenge Baa Baa Black Sheep' the menacing psychological study Mary Postgate and the ambiguous portrayal of grief and mourning in The Gardener' here are stories of criminals ghosts femmes fatales madness and murder.
Title: The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories Of Rudyard Kipling
Author(s): Kipling Rudyard, Jan Montefiore
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141442358
Pages: 624 Pages
Publication Date: 7/26/2011
Category: Classic Fiction