Many Inventions
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1522763686 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Many Inventions is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The book has the following stories: To the True Romance The Disturber of Traffic A Conference of the Powers My Lord the Elephant One View of the Question ‘The Finest Story in the World’ His Private Honour A Matter of Fact The Lost Legion In The Rukh ‘Brugglesmith’ ‘Love-o’-women’ The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot Judson and the Empire The Children of the Zodiac Anchor Song
"Many great short stories by a master story teller" according to Stephen Challis. I was lucky enough to find a copy of this book in my father's extensive book collection and was able to read some of the less well known stories of this master of the English language. As a fan of the Jungle Books, I was interested to discover what happened to Mowgli when
Kipling died in 1936 in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Returning to England in 1889, Kipling settled in London and continued to earn a living as a writer. Kipling once again returned to England in 1896 and continued his writing career, although tragedy hit the family when his eldest daughter, Josephine, died in 1899. Having re
They travelled extensively in the following four years, including a spell living in America, and it was in this time most of his enduring work was written, not least ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘The Second Jungle Book’. ‘The Phantom Rickshaw’, ‘Soldiers Three’ and ‘Under the Deodars’ are amongst these early works. The following year, having settled in Sussex, he published ‘Just So Stories’, a book he had planned to write for Josephine. A