The Best Short StoriesWordsworth Editions, 1997 - 210 pagine With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social range. He gained immense popularity, becoming (as these stories indicate) the knowledgeable spokesman for a wide public. Later, although Kipling's right-wing views increasingly incurred hostility, his creativity remained formidable. In this rich collection, we encounter bold realism, poignant nostalgia, dark comedy, the vividly horrific, the exuberantly fanciful and the disturbingly uncanny. |
Sommario
The Courting of Dinah Shadd | 1 |
On Greenbow Hill | 20 |
At the End of the Passage | 35 |
The Limitations of Pambé Serang | 52 |
The Finest Story in the World | 69 |
The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot | 93 |
The Ship that Found Herself III | 111 |
The Maltese Cat | 125 |
Wireless | 143 |
They | 161 |
Mrs Bathurst | 181 |
Below the Mill Dam | 197 |