Rudyard Kipling

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rudyard Kipling's funny and acerbic verse continues to delight readers of all ages. Included here is the famed Gunga Din, a poem from the perspective of a British soldier, saved by a nativewho diesand reads as a commentary on racism. This collection illustrates the scope and originality of Kipling's work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411439719
• Artikelnr.: 50389426

Autorenporträt

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 41, 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.