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ISBN-13: | 9783842459854 |
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Publisher: | Tredition Classics |
Publication date: | 11/17/2011 |
Pages: | 308 |
Product dimensions: | 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.65(d) |
About the Author
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 42, 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. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.
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THE MAN WHO WAS The Earth gave up her dead that tide, Into our camp he came, And said his say, and went his way, And left our hearts aflame. Keep tally on the gun-butt score The vengeance we must take, When God shall bring lull reckoning, For our dead comrade's sake. Ballad. Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists upon being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle. The host never knows which side of his nature is going to turn up next. Dirkovitch was a Russian a Russian of the Russians who appeared to get/ his bread by serving the Czar as an officer in a Cossack regiment, and corresponding for a Russian newspaper with a name that was never twice alike. He was a handsome young Oriental, fond of wandering through unexplored portions of the earth, and he arrived in India from nowhere in particular. At least no living man could ascertain whether it was by way of Balkh, Badakshan, Chitral, Baluchistan, or Nepaul, oranywhere else. The Indian Government, being in an unusually affable mood, gave orders that he was to be civilly treated and shown everything that was to be seen. So he drifted, talking bad English and worse French, from one city to another, till he foregathered with Her Majesty's White Hussars in the city of Peshawur, which stands at the mouth of that narrow swordcut in the hills that men call the Khyber Pass. He was undoubtedly an officer, and he was decorated after the manner of the Kussians with little enamelled crosses, and he could talk, and(though this has nothing to do with his merits) he had been given up as a hopel...
Table of Contents
The Lang Men o' Larut | 1 | |
Reingelder and the German Flag | 6 | |
The Wandering Jew | 10 | |
Through the Fire | 15 | |
The Finances of the Gods | 21 | |
The Amir's Homily | 27 | |
Jews in Shushan | 32 | |
The Limitations of Pambe Serang | 37 | |
Little Tobrah | 43 | |
Bubbling Well Road | 47 | |
The City of Dreadful Night | 52 | |
Georgie Porgie | 60 | |
Naboth | 71 | |
The Dream of Duncan Parrenness | 76 | |
The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney | 83 | |
The Courting of Dinah Shadd | 115 | |
On Greenhow Hill | 144 | |
The Man Who Was | 166 | |
The Head of the District | 184 | |
Without Benefit of Clergy | 212 | |
At the End of the Passage | 241 | |
The Mutiny of the Mavericks | 267 | |
The Mark of the Beast | 290 | |
The Return of Imray | 307 | |
Namgay Doola | 322 | |
Bertran and Bimi | 336 | |
Moti Guj--Mutineer | 343 |