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The Kipling Reader

Rudyard Kipling

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The Kipling Reader | Rudyard Kipling
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Collection of the best know Rudyard Kipling short stories.

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. . .The sooner the better,' said Scott; but at the same time he marked, with the pride of ownership, how this or that little Ramasawmy was putting on flesh like a bantam. As the paddy carts were emptied he headed for Hawkins's camp by the railway, timing his arrival to fit in with the dinner-hour, for it was long since he had eaten at a cloth. He had no desire to make any dramatic entry, but an accident of the sunset ordered it that, when he had taken off his helmet to get the evening breeze, the low light should fall across his forehead, and he could not see what was before him; while one waiting at the tent door beheld, with new eyes, a young man, beautiful as Paris, a god in a halo of golden dust, walking slowly at the head of his flocks, while at his knee ran small naked Cupids. But she laughed—William, in a slate-coloured blouse, laughed consumedly till Scott, putting the best face he could upon the matter, halted his armies and bade her admire the kindergarten. It. . . Read More

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- Vit - Feb 28, 2023

Joseph Conrad seems to have known every nook and cranny of human soul… And this priceless knowledge made him one of the greatest innovators… And Heart of Darkness is simultaneously a polestar and milestone in the world literature.
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- Richard - Feb 16, 2024

First of all, get this straight:
Heart of Darkness
is one of those classics that you have to have read if you want to consider yourself a well-educated adult.

    Having watched
Apocalypse Now
doesn’t count — if anything, it ups the ante, since that means you have to think about the similari

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- Leonard - Sep 29, 2021

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- Sean Barrs - Jul 17, 2016

Is Joseph Conrad a racist?

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