Download or read book The Taking of Lungtungpen written by Rudyard Kipling and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), the Just So Stories (1902), 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 enduring 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 England, 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, 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. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined.Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "He [Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.
Download or read book The Taking of Lungtungpen written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Required Reading written by Priyasha Mukhopadhyay and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ordinary forms of writing—including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines—shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay rummages in the drawers of bureaucratic offices and the cupboards of publishers in search of how historical readers in colonial South Asia responded to texts ranging from licenses to manuals, how they made sense of them, and what this can tell us about their experiences living in the shadow of a vast imperial power. Taking these engagements seriously, she argues, is the first step to challenging conventional notions of what it means to read. Mukhopadhyay’s account is populated by a cast of characters that spans the ranks of colonial society, from bored soldiers to frustrated bureaucrats. These readers formed close, even intimate relationships with everyday texts. She presents four case studies: a soldier’s manual, a cache of bureaucratic documents, a collection of astrological almanacs, and a women’s literary magazine. Tracking moments in which readers refused to read, were unable to read, and read in part, she uncovers the dizzying array of material, textual, and aural practices these texts elicited. Even selectively read almanacs and impenetrable account books, she finds, were springboards for personal, world-shaping readerly relationships. Untethered from the constraints of conventional literacy, Required Reading reimagines how texts work in the world and how we understand the very idea of reading.
Download or read book Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Juvenile Books in the Chicago Public Library written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 1895 1902 written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soldiers Three written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding List of English Prose Fiction in the Chicago Public Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Rudyard Kipling 1931 36 written by Rudyard Kipling and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular author of his day and a paradox who was both an assertive British imperialist and a man of sensitivity and wide reading, Rudyard Kipling is best remembered now as the author of The Jungle Book, the Just-So Stories, and Kim. Fully annotated, volumes 5 and 6 conclude the publication of Kipling's letters, a heroic effort that began with the publication of volume 1 in 1990.
Download or read book Soldier Stories written by Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Tales written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Tales written by Rudyard Kipling and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories, characters, situations, portrayals, dialogues are fresh, rich and funny. The most light and funny situations are explained in such a rich language that they seem not so ordinary and indeed exceptional. It beautifully highlights the eccentricities of the so to believe rich, cultured and polished British class in India and their funny interactions with the native population. The hope, beliefs, simplicity, faith and superstitions of the natives coupled with brute, cluelessness, straight jacket, heavy handedness of the British creates tongue in cheek humor – guaranteed to generate a lot of wonder, sighs, laughs and giggles.
Download or read book Works written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bram Stoker and Russophobia written by Jimmie E. Cain, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian England, a marked fear of Russia prevailed in the government and the public. As a result of the Crimean War and other Russian threats to the British empire, the English mind was haunted by a shadowy enemy of barbarous Eastern invaders. The influence of this Russophobia is evident in the works of Bram Stoker, who responded to the Russian challenge to British Imperial hegemony through the character of Dracula, a primitive and menacing Eastern figure destroyed by warriors pledged to the Crown. The text investigates the role of Russophobia in Stoker's fiction, particularly his novels Dracula and The Lady of the Shroud. It offers historical information about Russophobia and the Crimean War, considers Slavic and Balkan connections, and analyzes Stoker's vampire themes. The resulting work shows how two nations' histories intertwine in an unexpected literary avenue. Illustrations include numerous political cartoons of the era.
Download or read book The Best War Stories Ever Told written by Stephen Brennan and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects stories capturing different aspects of what it means to be a cowboy, from authors including Mark Twain, Andy Adams, and Zane Grey.
Download or read book Politics and Awe in Rudyard Kipling s Fiction written by Peter Havholm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a resurgence of interest in Kipling among critics who struggle to reconcile the multiple pleasures offered by his fiction with the controversial political ideas that inform it. Peter Havholm takes up the challenge, piecing together Kipling's understanding of empire and humanity from evidence in Anglo-Indian and Indian newspapers of the 1870s and 1880s and offering a new explanation for Kipling's post-1891 turn to fantasy and stories written to be enjoyed by children. By dovetailing detailed contextual knowledge of British India with informed and sensitive close readings of well-known works like 'The Man Who Would Be King',' Kim', 'The Light That Failed', and 'They', Havholm offers a fresh reading of Kipling's early and late stories that acknowledges Kipling's achievement as a writer and illuminates the seductive allure of the imperialist fantasy.
Download or read book Werner s Voice Magazine written by Edgar S. Werner and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kipling s India written by Arley Munson and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page. This book was released on 1915 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
