Barrack-Room Ballads (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): With "Departmental Ditties" and Other Verses

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

The poems originally published under the title Barrack-Room Ballads include some of Kipling's most famous efforts, such as "Danny Deever," "Fuzzy-Wuzzy," "Gunga Din," and "Tommy."  These martial songs and poems are still sound a deep connection with British imperialism. Also includes Deaprtmental Ditties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411461284
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	436
File size:	254 KB

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.”

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.”