Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Poems (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

The poems collected here are mostly light verse—“barrack-room ballads,” Kipling called them—inspired by Kipling’s early adventures as a newspaperman in British colonial India. The first book Kipling published, Departmental Ditties (1886), emphasizes the universality of human experience and the cross-cultural ubiquity of the ignoble and tragicomic aspects of human character.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411435599
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	02/08/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	353
File size:	257 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 past master 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.”