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Rewards and Fairies

Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: Dead Dodo Presents Rudyard Kipling

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Summary

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Rudyard Kipling, ‘Rewards and Fairies’. 

 


 

 


Through the agency of Puck, Dan and Una, meet an array of historical characters from flint and iron ages to Good Queen Bess and Sir Francis Drake. Other tales include stories of England following the Norman Conquest, and the Europe of Napolean and Talleyrand.

 


 

 


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 England, 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, 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 Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined.
Available since: 08/14/2015.

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