Plain Tales from the Hills - Couverture souple

Kipling, Rudyard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140183124 ISBN 13 : 9780140183122

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of 'heat and bewilderment and wasted effort and broken faith'. He writes brilliantly and hauntingly about the barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience but implacably crushed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), English short-story writer, novelist and poet. Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). His most popular works include The Jungle Book (1894) and the Just So Stories (1902), both children's classics though they have attracted adult audiences also.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140183124
• ISBN 13: 9780140183122
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Woudhuysen H., Trotter David
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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