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Kipling : the glass, the shadow and the fire
- Title
- Kipling : the glass, the shadow and the fire / Philip Mason.
- Author
- Mason, Philip, 1906-1999
- Publication
- New York : Harper & Row, [1975]
- ©1975
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR4856 .M36 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 334 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- A personal rediscovery of Kipling's works, including plot summaries of the stories.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Note
- Dust jacket design by John Clarke.
- Rare Book copy: Book jacket retained.
- Bibliography (note)
- "Principal books by Rudyard Kipling, with contents of short-story collections": pages 314-319.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-322).
- Contents
- Part one: 'A strangely clever youth ... ' -- Admiration and dislike: how others saw him, a personal rediscovery -- The first years: the house of desolation, flagrant injustice, young man in India -- The first books: Plain tales, Doors to new worlds, Soldiers three, Odd man out -- Part two: The search for a home -- An end to boyhood: romantic friendship, writing for a living, many inventions, the first fable -- The flight from Vermont: in a strange land, captains courageous, ignominious flight -- A check to growth: complete surrender, engines and screws, the South African War, growth and experiment -- Hallo my fancy: Mowgli, folk in Housen, Kim -- The other side: excommunicatory hatreds, the imperialist, the farces, flawed opals -- Part three: retribution and compassion -- Restoring the balance: the late stories, revenge and retribution, dayspring mishandled, loneliness and pain, healing -- Belief: what do you expect for the money? forgiveness, untimely, a vision of heaven, dismissed to the mercy -- Pain and love: the last period, the brutality of art, if the dead rise not ... the wish house, the gardener -- Epilogue: Stranger upon earth -- Who is Kim? -- The shadow and the fire
- ISBN
- 006012833X
- 9780060128333
- 0224011286
- 9780224011280
- LCCN
- 74029175
- OCLC
- ocm01501966
- 1501966
- SCSB-2421005
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries