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| Informazioni aggiuntive sul format: | Online version: Mason, Philip, 1906-1999. Kipling. New York : Harper & Row, [1975] (OCoLC)768012660 |
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| Persona incaricata: | Rudyard Kipling; Rudyard Kipling |
| Tipo materiale: | Biography |
| Tipo documento: | Book |
| Tutti gli autori / Collaboratori: |
Philip Mason |
| ISBN: | 006012833X 9780060128333 |
| Numero OCLC: | 1501966 |
| Descrizione: | 334 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contenuti: | Part one: 'A strangely clever youth...' -- Admiration and dislike: how others saw him, a personal rediscovery -- The first years: the house of desolation, flagrant injustice, young man in India -- The first books: Plain tales, Doors to new worlds, Soldiers three, Odd man out -- Part two: The search for a home -- An end to boyhood: romantic friendship, writing for a living, many inventions, the first fable -- The flight from Vermont: in a strange land, captains courageous, ignominious flight -- A check to growth: complete surrender, engines and screws, the South African War, growth and experiment -- Hallo my fancy: Mowgli, folk in Housen, Kim -- The other side: excommunicatory hatreds, the imperialist, the farces, flawed opals -- Part three: retribution and compassion -- Restoring the balance: the late stories, revenge and retribution, dayspring mishandled, loneliness and pain, healing -- Belief: what do you expect for the money? forgiveness, untimely, a vision of heaven, dismissed to the mercy -- Pain and love: the last period, the brutality of art, if the dead rise not... the wish house, the gardener. |
| Responsabilità: | Philip Mason. |
Abstract:
A personal rediscovery of Kipling's works, including plot summaries of the stories.
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