Name: Soldiers Three
SKU: 58162467
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Author: Kipling, Rudyard
ISBN: 9789356561458

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Publisher

Double 9 Booksllp

Language

English

Pages

244

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.4 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9789356561458

Synopsis "Soldiers Three"

'Soldiers Three' is a short stories composition written by Rudyard Kipling. It has three sections which were previously published in separate sections. Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris are the three soldiers - an Irish man, a Yorkshire man and a Londoner. These stories disclose soldiers life in Afghanistan and British policies rarely seen earlier to maintain British influence. These soldiers convey the raw fact of the war, in the mid-east as the British began to loosen their imperial hold. The characters about whom the stories are concerned are native Indians, rather than the British for writing about whom Kipling may be better known. The stories are good for those readers who enjoy history theater, short works of fiction and historical fiction. The play on Gadsby is the main justifying element of this book. This story of Gadsby is written in melodramatic form, comprising of eight short scenes. This short narration of 100 pages, was later collected in book form as the second part of Soldiers Three. Four of the stories are explained by the Indians, and four by an English journalist.

Rudyard Kipling

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Bombay, (1865-1936). Rudyard Kipling wrote novels, poems, and stories mainly set in India and Burma during the British rule. Kipling was a prolific and popular writer, and his literature always revolves around three axes: patriotism, the duty of the English to lead a life of intense activity, and the destiny of England, called to be a great empire. His insistence on this last aspect was undoubtedly an echo of the Victorian past, and severely damaged his reputation as a writer, despite being the first British author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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