THE LIGHT THAT FAILED (with scenes from the Dramatic Version)

" The Light that Failed' is an organic whole — a book with a backbone — and stands out boldly among the nerveless, flaccid, invertebrate things that enjoy an expensive but ephemeral existence in the circulating libraries." — The Athenæum.

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Dick Heldar, hero of Rudyard Kipling's novel "The Light that Failed" was an English artist, an orphan who had been brought up with another waif called Maisie by the hard-hearted Mrs. Jennett. In early manhood he goes to the front as a war-artist, and ...