Автор:Rudyard Kipling Год: 2010 Издание:Wordsworth Editions Limited Страниц: 240 ISBN: 9781853261794 The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. Л Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social range. lie gained immense popularity, becoming (as these stories indicate) the knowledgeable spokesman for a wide public. Later, although Kipling's right-wing views increasingly incurred hostility, his creativity remained formidable. In this rich collection, we encounter bold realism, poignant nostalgia, dark comedy, the vividly horrific, the exuberantly fanciful and the disturbingly uncanny.
