| The Portable Kipling Contributor(s): Kipling, Rudyard (Author), Howe, Irving (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140150978 ISBN-13: 9780140150971 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1982 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 828.809 |
| LCCN: 81015402 |
| Series: Viking Portable Library |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5" W x 7.7" (1.55 lbs) 687 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Penguin Classic The Portable Kipling contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three; more than twenty stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King," "The Cat that Walked by Himself," "The Eye of Allah,"and the unsettling "Mary Postgate"; more than fifty poems; and three essays. The volume also includes a complete chronology and a critical introduction by Irving Howe that permits us to see the formal achievements of Kipling's work as well as to enjoy its abundant pleasures--not least of which is the sheer satisfaction of great storytelling. |