Indian Tales - Kipling, Rudyard

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Résumé :
Collected works set in Colonial India from the 'defender of British imperialism' and author of 'Jungle Book'. THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD, WITH THE MAIN GUARD, WEE WILLIE WINKIE, THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS, AT TWENTY-TWO, THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD, THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN, IN FLOOD TIME, MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY, THE BIG DRUNK DRAF' BY WORD OF MOUTH, THE DRUMS OF THE FORE AND AFT THE SENDING OF DANA DA, ON THE CITY WALL, THE BROKEN-LINK HANDICAP, ON GREENHOW HILL, TO BE FILED FOR REFERENCE, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, THE GATE OF THE HUNDRED SORROWS, HE INCARNATION OF KRISHNA MULVANEY, HIS MAJESTY THE KING, THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES, IN THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO, BLACK JACK, THE TAKING OF LUNGTUNGPEN, THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW, ON THE STRENGTH OF A LIKENESS, PRIVATE LEAROYD'S STORY, WRESSLEY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE, THE SOLID MULDOON, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, BEYOND THE PALE, THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT, THE MADNESS OF PRIVATE ORTHERIS, L'ENVOI

Biographie:
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author, poet, journalist, and Nobel Prize-winning writer whose fiction and verse became central to English-language literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Bombay and educated in England, Kipling drew upon imperial, military, journalistic, and childhood experience in works ranging from The Jungle Book and Kim to poems, short stories, fables, and children's literature. His prose is known for rhythm, verbal energy, narrative compression, and a powerful command of voice.Kipling's books for children remain among his most widely read works. Just So Stories shows him at his most playful and inventive, using repetition, comic exaggeration, mythic explanation, animal lore, and storyteller's intimacy to create tales that feel both ancient and entirely his own. For readers of classic children's books, animal stories, literary fairy tales, and early twentieth-century British fiction, Kipling remains a major and complicated figure: brilliant, influential, stylistically unmistakable, and deeply embedded in the literary history of his age....