The Wish House and Other Stories
$44.00
- Paperback
492 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2002
Summary
Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet.
The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber of Traffic,” and “The Eye of Allah,” the poems “The Runners,” “The Return of the Children,” and “The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, “The Man Who Would Be King.”<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812966022 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812966023 |
| Author: | Rudyard Kipling, Craig Raine |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 492 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2002 |
| Weight: | 581g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“There will always be plenty in Kipling that I will find difficult to forgive; but there is also enough truth in these stories to make them impossible to ignore.”- Salman Rushdie
“There will always be plenty in Kipling that I will find difficult to forgive; but there is also enough truth in these stories to make them impossible to ignore.”—Salman Rushdie
About The Author
Rudyard Kipling
Craig Raine is a poet, lecturer, and critic. He is a fellow of New College, Oxford, the author of several poetry collections and books, and the editor of the journal Arete. He lives in Oxford, England.
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