The Best Short Stories - Kipling (Wordsworth Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 10

1853261793

ISBN 13

9781853261794

Tags

Classics, Criticism & Theory, Anthologies, Short Stories, Contemporary

Description

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling s early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social range. He gained immense popularity, becoming (as these stories indicate) the knowledgeable spokesman for a wide public. Later, although Kipling s right-wing views increasingly incurred hostility, his creativity remained formidable. In this rich collection, we encounter bold realism, poignant nostalgia, dark comedy, the vividly horrific, the exuberantly fanciful and the disturbingly uncanny. - from Amzon

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