Download or read book The Finest Story in the World written by Rudyard Kipling and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central character, Charlie Meare, has ambitions to become a great writer. Kipling (acting as the narrator) first meets him in a gaming club where he is clearly known and advises him that gaming is not a good pastime for an ambitious young man. Charlie reads Kipling many of his poems and stories that, according to Kipling, are poor and lacking in skill.
Download or read book If written by Christopher Benfey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures—including Freud and William James—was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he lamented, “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live in either.” In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative “what if” over Kipling’s American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling’s work.
Download or read book How the Leopard Got His Spots written by Rudyard Kipling and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.
Download or read book Great Short Stories of the World written by Barrett Harper Clark and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 177 short stories.
Download or read book Rudyard Kipling written by William B. Dillingham and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is William Dillingham’s third book studying the relationship between Rudyard Kipling’s inner life and his writings. The focus is on major short stories, mainly from Kipling’s later period, beginning with an earlier work, “‘The Finest Story in the World,’” and concluding with the last story he wrote, “‘Teem’—a Treasure Hunter.” Rudyard Kipling: Life, Love, and Art analyzes stories that are not only among Kipling’s most accomplished but also demonstrably in need of a fresh, thorough reassessment, furnishing insights into how such intricately complex works as “‘Wireless,’” “Mrs. Bathurst,” “The Bull That Thought,” and “The Wish House” were conceived and how they reflect Kipling’s most cherished beliefs, including his commitments and his fears. As Professor Dillingham says, “we find that frequently at their core are matters that deal with the heart of his craft and subjects that pervade his writings: life, how it should and should not be lived; love, what is healthy about it and what is perilous; and Art, what it is in broad terms ‘proper work’ and how crucially important it is to one’s sense of identity.
Download or read book The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God Other Stories written by Etgar Keret and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2004 by Toby Press.
Download or read book Stories and Poems written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These stories and poems cover the full range of Kipling's career from the youthful volumes that brought him fame as the chronicler of British India, to the bittersweet fruits of age and bereavement in the aftermath of the First World War" --back cover.
Download or read book The Most Beautiful Story in the World written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ✅ A great short story for young people and adults of the famous Novel Prize (1907) Rudyard Kipling, author of great works of world literature; a work revised and translated to offer you the BEST TITLES IN UNIVERSAL LITERATURE → Acquire this book and enjoy the pleasure of reading ... Synopsis of the book: Charlie Mears is a twenty-year-old bank employee with literary aspirations whose motivation at that moment is to write what he considers to be "The most beautiful story in the world." In some billiard rooms he coincides with a writer, to whom he shows the bases of his story, which he will title "The story of a ship." He will be absorbed by the overwhelming imagination with which the boy describes the ship as a Greek galot, providing all kinds of details very difficult to know by a simple boy who was a bank employee and who had hardly read anything until now. How is it possible that such a young boy, who has barely read, can narrate historical adventures with such ease and detail? Later appointments between the two take place, in which Charlie continues to describe with great clarity of detail, situations on the boat, the rowers, the arrangement of the oars ... etc. After successive sessions, the writer reaches the terrifying conclusion that the boy is having a kind of transmigrations of his soul called metempsychosis, which are extreme dualisms, the soul changes body after death. It thus concludes that Charlie had definitely been in other times, a kind of Greek galley (man who paddled in a forced way on galleys). It is predictable the ecstasy that the writer suffers before that great opportunity that he has in front of him to be able to write stories in real time, of things that happened thousands of years ago ... Biography: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British writer and poet, author of great stories, children's stories, novels and poetry, such as The Jungle The Book (1894), the spy novel Kim (1901), the short story "The Man Who Would Be King" ("The Man Who Could Be King", 1888), many of which were made into a movie. He rejected several awards at the time but in 1907 he accepted and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which made him the first British writer to receive this award, and the youngest Nobel Prize winner for Literature to date.
Download or read book The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales written by Rudyard Kipling and published by New York : M.J. Ivers, [19--?]. This book was released on 1891 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of India written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-01-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these stories, first published over a hundred years ago, Kipling sets the stage for encounters between the East and the West – between India and Anglo-India. These tales are remarkable not just for the range of Indian places and situations they describe or their wealth of historical detail but also for their sensitive and by and large fair representations of both British and Indian characters. Kipling takes on the thorny issues of empire, race, miscegenation and the practice of ‘going native’, and uses them as literary tropes, to examine human culture, religion and society. Whether it is the account of Lispeth who first embraces Christianity at ‘the mature age of five weeks’ and then rejects it and the hypocrisy of missionaries when her heart is broken, or that of little Tods who is more at home in the bazaars than in a colonial drawing-room and knows India as a native, or that of Bisesa and Trejago whose affair in the cover of darkness leads to explosive and tragic consequences for both, here are tales that have an uncanny ability to get to the heart of the human situation and represent behavior, strengths and weaknesses, on both sides of the ‘divide’ between the East and the West. Immediate and vivid descriptions, searing wit and above all Kipling’s remarkable talent for spinning a yarn makes this collection of stories a truly rewarding read. Little know. An eclectic collection of old favorites as well as rarely anthologized pieces, here is Kipling’s India at its finest.
Download or read book How the Just So Stories Were Made written by John Batchelor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling’s world-famous children’s classic From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant’s Child," Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer’s life and work—including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine. Batchelor details the playful challenges the stories made to contemporary society. In his stories Kipling played with biblical and other stories of creation and imagined fantastical tales of animals' development and man's discovery of literacy. Richly illustrated with original drawings and family photographs, this account reveals Kipling’s public and private lives—and sheds new light on a much-loved and tremendously influential classic.
Download or read book The Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Lady at Wairakei written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Mallinson Rendel. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short story by Rudyard Kipling about New Zealand, written in 1891.
Download or read book World s Best Short Stories written by Various and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of timeless masterpieces from Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Poe William Thackeray Rudyard Kipling and many more World’s Best Short Stories is a collection of captivating tales from around the world, penned by some of the greatest storytellers of all time. Featuring pioneers of the short-story genre, this book promises to entertain you in many different ways. Be it the intellectual but endlessly fun The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, or even the enduringly brilliant Aladdin from the Arabian Nights, every story has a unique charm. Also included are the ever-popular A Christmas Carol by master storyteller Charles Dickens and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. Presenting masterpieces of literature by the likes of Rudyard Kipling, William M. Thackeray, Guy de Maupassant, Nathaniel Hawthorne and J. M. Barrie, this edition belongs in every avid reader’s personal collection.
Download or read book The Jungle Books written by Rudyard Kipling and published by NorthSouth Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This breathtaking new edition of Rudyard Kipling’s celebrated coming-of-age tale—illustrated by German illustrator Aljoscha Blau—contains the eight stories and verses featuring Mowgli. Published to celebrate what would have been Kipling’s 150th birthday, these stories and drawings will fascinate and delight a new generation of readers.
Download or read book The Best Short Stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating selection of Kipling's most famous short stories, bringing togheter the very best of his work
