Name: The Wish House and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics) (in English)
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN: 9780812966022

portada The Wish House and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Illustrated by

Craig Raine

Introduction by

Craig Raine

Publisher

Modern Library

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

492

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.7 x 14.2 x 3.4 cm

Weight

0.60 kg.

ISBN13

9780812966022

Synopsis "The Wish House and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics) (in English)"

Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling's finest works, including the stories "In the House of Suddhoo," "The Disturber of Traffic," and "The Eye of Allah," the poems "The Runners," "The Return of the Children," and "The Last Ode," and his famous story about Afghanistan, "The Man Who Would Be King." Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, "We need to think about Kipling. He is our greatest short-story writer, but one whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognize."

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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