Name: From sea to sea and Other Sketches 2 Volume Paperback Set: From sea to sea and Other Sketches - Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies) (in English)
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN: 9781108033695

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

456

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.6 cm

Weight

0.58 kg.

ISBN

1108033695

ISBN13

9781108033695

Synopsis "From sea to sea and Other Sketches 2 Volume Paperback Set: From sea to sea and Other Sketches - Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies) (in English)"

First published in book form in 1899, and reissued here in the 1928 Macmillan edition, this two-volume collection contains a series of letters and travel reports originally written for newspapers by the young Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) on his journeys around India, Burma, China, Japan and the United States between 1887 and 1889. The 1907 Nobel Prize winner's characteristic fluid writing style is already apparent in these funny, poignant and vivid articles and short stories. Providing revealing insights into Kipling's notions of imperialism and Englishness, the works also reflect the writer's keen observational powers, and a telling intelligent self-awareness of his own cultural prejudices. Volume 2 contains the remainder of From Sea to Sea, covering the American west coast, Salt Lake City and Chicago, and describing an encounter with Mark Twain as 'a moment to be remembered.' This is followed by several short stories including The City of Dreadful Night.

Rudyard Kipling

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Bombay, (1865-1936). Rudyard Kipling escribió novelas, poemas y relatos ambientados principalmente en la India y Birmania durante la época de gobierno británico. Kipling fue un escritor prolífico y popular, y su literatura gira siempre en torno a tres ejes: el patriotismo, el deber de los ingleses de llevar una vida de intensa actividad y el destino de Inglaterra, llamada a ser un gran imperio. Su insistencia en este último aspecto era sin duda un eco del pasado victoriano, y perjudicó gravemente su reputación como escritor, a pesar de que fue el primer autor británico galardonado con el Nobel de Literatura.

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