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Kipling, Rudyard

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ISBN 10 : 0140183752 ISBN 13 : 9780140183757

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1992

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), 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 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 the United Kingdom, 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, at the age of 42, 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. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both 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: "[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."

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Olf THB MASJID-AIOSA OF SAYYID AHMED (WAHABI) Not with an outcry to A llali nor any complainmsr He answered his name at the muster and stood to the chaining. When the twin anklets were nipped on the leg-bars that held them. He brotherly greeted the armourers stooping to weld them. Ere the sad dust of the marshalled feet of the chain-gan swallowed him. Observing him nobly at ease, I alighted and followed him. Thus we had speech bv the way, but not touching his sorrow Rather his red Yesteroay and ms regal To-morrow, Wherein he statelily moved to the clink of his chains unregarded. Nowise abashed but contented to drink of the i otion awarded. Saluting aloofly his Pate, he made swift with his story; And the words of his mouth were as slaves spreading carpets of glory Embroidered with names of the Djinns a miraculous weaving- But the cool and perspicuous eye overbore imbelieving.
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