Au hasard de la vie - Rudyard Kipling

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Résumé :
Ce roman raconte les histoires dans l'auteur sur les chemins de l'Inde et ont pour th?me la vie et la mort, les hommes et les femmes, l'amour et la destin?e. Extrait: Ce jour-l? je marchais sur des nuages de gloire. La terre enti?re ?tait trop petite pour me contenir. Parbleu, j'aurais pris le soleil dans le ciel en guise de braise ardente pour rallumer ma pipe, tant j'?tais grandiose. Mais quand je fis faire ? mes recrues l'exercice d'escouade, je commen?ai par l'avance g?n?rale de bataillon, alors que j'aurais d? leur faire marquer le pas....

Biographie:
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899) and If- (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.