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Life's Handicap

Life's Handicap( )
Author: Kipling, Rudyard
Editor: Cockshut, A. O. J.
Series title:The ^AWorld's Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-281671-9
Publication Date:Apr 1987
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $5.95
Book Description:

The twenty-four short stories and poems in this volume, written early in Kipling's career, highlight his fascination with the contrasts in Indian life and his attitude toward British rule. The volume includes stories such as "The Courting of Dinah Shadd," "The Head of the District," "On Greenhow Hill," and "The Amir's Homily."

Book Details
Pages:364
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.56 x 7.31 x 0.665 Inches
Book Weight:0.416 Pounds
Author Biography
Kipling, Rudyard (Author)
Kipling, who as a novelist dramatized the ambivalence of the British colonial experience, was born of English parents in Bombay and as a child knew Hindustani better than English. He spent an unhappy period of exile from his parents (and the Indian heat) with a harsh aunt in England, followed by the public schooling that inspired his "Stalky" stories. He returned to India at 18 to work on the staff of the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette and rapidly became a prolific writer. His mildly satirical work won him a reputation in England, and he returned there in 1889. Shortly after, his first novel, The Light That Failed (1890) was published, but it was not altogether successful.

In the early 1890s, Kipling met and married Caroline Balestier and moved with her to her family's estate in Brattleboro, Vermont. While there he wrote Many Inventions (1893), The Jungle Book (1894-95), and Captains Courageous (1897). He became dissatisfied with life in America, however, and moved back to England, returning to America only when his daughter died of pneumonia. Kipling never again returned to the United States, despite his great popularity there.

Short stories form the greater portion of Kipling's work and are of several distinct types. Some of his best are stories of the supernatural, the eerie and unearthly, such as "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Brushwood Boy," and "They." His tales of gruesome horror include "The Mark of the Beast" and "The Return of Imray." "William the Conqueror" and "The Head of the District" are among his political tales of English rule in India. The "Soldiers Three" group deals with Kipling's three musketeers: an Irishman, a Cockney, and a Yorkshireman. The Anglo-Indian Tales, of social life in Simla, make up the larger part of his first four books.




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