Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Kipling's Choice PDF full book. Access full book title Kipling's Choice by Geert Spillebeen. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Geert Spillebeen Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0618800352 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 101
Book Description
Now available in paperback, this moving historical novel examines the lost days of Rudyard Kipling's son, John who was killed in his first battle of World War I.
Author: Geert Spillebeen Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0618800352 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 101
Book Description
Now available in paperback, this moving historical novel examines the lost days of Rudyard Kipling's son, John who was killed in his first battle of World War I.
Author: Geert Spillebeen Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0547348924 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 165
Book Description
As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England’s highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country. When World War I broke out, John, like his father before him, wanted to fight for his country. When his military application was threatened for the same reason as his father’s—poor eyesight—Rudyard took matters into his own hands. Determined not to let history repeat itself, the elder Kipling applied all his influence to get his son a commission. The teenager who had lived his life in comfort and whose greatest concern had been pleasing his father now faced a much greater challenge—staying alive in his first battle. Geert Spillebeen’s moving fictionalized account follows the true story of John Kipling, a young man whose desire to live up to the family name threatens his very survival. It also draws attention to the senseless suffering and loss of life in this and every war.
Author: Geert Spillebeen Publisher: Paw Prints ISBN: 9781442001190 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle. Reprint.
Author: Rudyard Kipling Publisher: ISBN: 9780571147038 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 448
Book Description
"As a short-story writer, Rudyard Kipling is equaled only by Chekhov -- and this unusually generous selection, intended as a companion volume to T. S. Eliot's A Choice of Kipling's Verse, will undoubtedly confirm Kipling as a great master. Kipling has never wanted for advocates. The list includes George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Kingsley Amis and Angus Wilson, as well as Eliot. But Craig Raine, in his original and meticulous introduction, offers a fresh overview of the work, as well as detailed readings of particular stories." -- Back cover.
Author: Peter Hopkirk Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 1848547277 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 179
Book Description
This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to see how much of it remains. To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But Kim is different. For much of this Great Game classic was inspired by actual people and places, thus blurring the line between the real and the imaginary. Less a travel book than a literary detective story, this is the intriguing story of Peter Hopkirk's quest for Kim and a host of other shadowy figures.
Author: Craig Brown Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451684517 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 385
Book Description
A collection of whimsical true encounters between famous and infamous individuals describes the unlikely meetings of Marilyn Monroe with Frank Lloyd Wright, Michael Jackson with Nancy Reagan, and Sigmund Freud with Gustav Mahler.
Author: Rudyard Kipling Publisher: ISBN: Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
While performing a scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Una and Dan accidentally summon Puck who enables them to witness tales of English history.
Author: Geert Spillebeen
Author: Geert Spillebeen
Author: Geert Spillebeen
Author: Geert Spillebeen
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Author: Peter Hopkirk
Author: Craig Brown
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Author: Rudyard Kipling