The Light That Failed

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

As war correspondent Dick Heldar's vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, his hopes, his dreams--fail with it. There are terrible choices to be made--between the love of the woman he treasures--and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592249886
Publisher:	Borgo Press
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

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.