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Zusatztext By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Informationen zum Autor Rudyard Kipling Klappentext A Penguin Classic The Portable Kipling contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three; more than twenty stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King," "The Cat that Walked by Himself," "The Eye of Allah,"and the unsettling "Mary Postgate"; more than fifty poems; and three essays. The volume also includes a complete chronology and a critical introduction by Irving Howe that permits us to see the formal achievements of Kipling's work as well as to enjoy its abundant pleasures-not least of which is the sheer satisfaction of great storytelling. Zusammenfassung A Penguin Classic The Portable Kipling contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three ; more than twenty stories! including “ The Man Who Would Be King !” “ The Cat that Walked by Himself !” “ The Eye of Allah !”and the unsettling “ Mary Postgate” ; more than fifty poems; and three essays. The volume also includes a complete chronology and a critical introduction by Irving Howe that permits us to see the formal achievements of Kipling's work as well as to enjoy its abundant pleasures—not least of which is the sheer satisfaction of great storytelling. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Portable Kipling - Edited by Irving Howe Editor's Introduction Chronology with Dates of Major Publications I. Stories STORIES OF INDIA The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes The Man Who Would Be King Without Benefit of Clergy Lispeth The Head of the District The Miracle of Purun Bhagat The Story of Muhammad Din Jews in Shushan SOLDIERS' TALES The Courting of Dinah Shadd On Greenhow Hill Black Jack FROM THE JUNGLE BOOKS Toomai of the Elephants The King's Ankus FROM JUST SO STORIES How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin The Cat That Walked by Himself ENTERTAINMENTS The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat Brugglesmith Brother Square-Toes "A Priest in Spite of Himself" HISTORICAL STORIES The Church That Was at Antioch The Eye of Allah UTOPIAN/ANTIUTOPIAN As Easy as A.B.C. LATE STORIES Mrs. Bathurst Friendly Brook The Wish House Mary Postgate The Gardener Dayspring Mishandled II. Poems L'Envoi The Broken Men McAndrew's Hymn The "Mary Gloster" The Last Chantey The Long Trail The Gipsy Trail The Last of the Light Brigade The Settler My Boy Jack The Vampire When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted The Holy War France Mesopotamia The Veterans The White Man's Burden Recessional "For All We Have and Are" The Benefactors The Craftsman "When 'Omer Smote 'Is Bloomin' Lyre" Epitaphs of the War Danny Deever Tommy Gunga Din The Widow at Windsor Mandalay Private Ortheris's Song Shillin' a Day That Day The Ladies The Sergeant's Weddin' Chant-Pagan Piet The Return "Cities and Thrones and Powers" The Recall The Way Through the Woods Sir Richard's Song A Charm Cold Iron The Waster Harp Song of the Dane Women A St. Helena Lullaby The Fabulists A Pict Song MacDonough's Song The Heritage Mowgli's Song Against People Song of the Galley-Slaves The Roman Centurion's Song Dane-geld Norman and Saxon Edgehill Fight The Dutch in the Medway III. Essays Literature An Interview with Mark Twain My Great and Only ...
