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Rudyard Kipling: A great Victorian, a great writer of Empire, a great man.

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of prose and poetry in the late 19th and 20th Century and awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1907.

Born in Bombay on 30th December 1865, as... Read Full Overview

The book, which includes autobiographical elements, describes the youth and manhood of Dick Heldar and traces his efforts as a war correspondent and artist whose sketches of British battles in Sudan become popular. When he returns to London, he begins painting his masterpiece,... Read Full Overview

The Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port... Read Full Overview

Set in London, the Sudan, and India, The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Herald, a painter going blind.

Premier roman de Kipling, pour lequel il gardera toujours une affection particuli re, La Lumi re qui s' teint est une magnifique et tragique histoire, un texte mouvant qui prend le temps d'installer le lecteur dans son histoire. Le h ros Dick, est amoureux depuis toujours... Read Full Overview

The Light that Failed is a novel written by Rudyard Kipling, which has been published in a large print edition. The story revolves around a young artist named Dick Heldar, who is struggling to find his place in the world. Dick is an aspiring painter, who has been living in Paris... Read Full Overview

As war correspondent Dick Heldar's vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, his hopes, his dreams--fail with it. There are terrible choices to be made--between the love of the woman he treasures--and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.

The Light that Failed is a novel by the renowned British author Rudyard Kipling. The book is a story of an artist named Dick Heldar, who is a struggling painter in London. He is passionate about his work but fails to make a living from it. He is in love with Maisie, a woman he... Read Full Overview

"What do you think she'd do if she caught us? We oughtn't to have it, you know," said Maisie."Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom," Dick answered, without hesitation. "Have you got the cartridges?""Yes; they're in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges... Read Full Overview

"The Light That Failed" is a novel by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1890. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, a blind artist and painter.