PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. - Couverture souple

Kipling, Rudyard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1858132711 ISBN 13 : 9781858132716

Editeur : Wordsworth Editions, 1993

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Then she dried her tears and went in to Kotgarth again, and said to the Chaplain's wife: "He will come back and marry me. He has gone to his own people to tell them so." And the Chaplain's wife soothed Lispeth and said: "He will come back." At the end of two months, Lispeth grew impatient, and was told that the Englishman had gone over the seas to England. She knew where England was, because she had read little geography primers; but, of course, she had no conception of the nature of the sea, being a Hill girl. There was an old puzzle-map of the World in the House. Lispeth had played with it when she was a child. She unearthed it again, and put it together of evenings, and cried to herself, and tried to imagine where her Englishman was. As she had no ideas of distance or steamboats, her notions were somewhat erroneous. It would not have made the least difference had she been perfectly correct; for the Englishman had no intention of coming back to marry a Hill girl. He forgot all about her by the time he was butterfly-hunting in Assam. He wrote a book on the East afterwards. Lispeth's name did not appear.

Biographie 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: Wordsworth Editions
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1858132711
• ISBN 13: 9781858132716
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 161
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