Anglický jazyk

Kipling, R: From Sea to Sea

Vydavateľstvo: Cosimo Classics
Rok vydania: 2006
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 203 x 127 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781596058248

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30.87 €

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O knihe

I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in the latter class.
-from No. VI

Though he achieved lasting fame with his children's tale The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling left us with a vast array of writing that has fallen into sad-and unwarranted-obscurity. This collection of notes and essays on his world travels reveals a man bursting with self-deprecating wit, keen observational powers, and an intelligent awareness of his own cultural biases and prejudices.

First published in 1899, this volume serves as a delightful reminder of Kipling's genius, and includes:

. an account of attending the theater in Japan and visiting Shinto shrines
. an exploration of India's "city of elephants" and a meeting with "the naughty children of Iquique"
. notes on a journey to San Francisco and the taking of tea with the "natives" there
. an explanation of how to "manufacture ethnological theories at railroad speed"
. and much more.

OF INTEREST TO: Kipling fans, readers of classic English literature, armchair travelers

Also available from Cosimo Classics: Kipling's short-story collection The Courting of Dinah Shadd

British author and poet RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) was born in colonial India, a locale that inspired his best-known works, The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and Gunga Din (1892). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.