Abaft the Funnel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

This collection of short stories and poetry is based on Kipling’s experiences in the colonies of the British Empire. Written during a period of great change in Kipling’s life, these stories provide a contrast between his fiction and the travel journalism he wrote at the same time (1888 and 1889).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411440623
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/29/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	372
File size:	277 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a pastmaster of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”