The Second Jungle Book - Couverture souple

Kipling, Rudyard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1509805605 ISBN 13 : 9781509805600

Editeur : Macmillan Children's Books, 2016

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a 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 41, 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. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. On the night of 12 January 1936, Kipling suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery, but died less than a week later on 18 January 1936 at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Kipling's death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The stream is shrunk the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I ;W ith fevered jowl and sunken flank Each jostling each along the bank; A nd, by one drouthy fear made still, Foregoing thought of quest or kill. Now neath his dam the fawn may see The lean Pack-wolf as cowed as he, And the tall buck, unflinching, note The fangs that tore his fathers throat. The pools arc shrunk the strcajns are dry. And we be playmates, thou and I, Till yonder cloud Good Huntini !loose The rain that breaks the Water Truce.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan Children's Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1509805605
• ISBN 13: 9781509805600
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384