Name: The Story Of The Gadsby
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Author: Kipling, Rudyard
ISBN: 9789356561564

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Publisher

Double 9 Booksllp

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9789356561564

Synopsis "The Story Of The Gadsby"

'The Story of the Gadsbys' is a story by Rudyard Kipling and it was first printed in India in 1888. This is a short book written as a play. It pursues the young captain who is getting married, and each scene represents the different stages of the marriage. This book is written almost entirely in dialogue form. It shows a collection of eight very short stories written in melodramatic form and entitled: 'Poor Dear Mamma', 'The World Without', 'The Tents of Kedar', 'With any Amazement', 'The Garden of Eden', 'Fatima', 'The Valley of the Shadow', 'The Swelling of Jordan'. The most important characters of these short dramatic scenes are Captain Vasant and Miss D., along with the setting and the events described in these scenes are modern one, that are much closer to a comedy of manners. Though the plots of these scenes are not clear and consistent and the main theme dealt with this is related to family relations, manners and social classes. First printed in the Indian Railway Library as no. 2. These eight stories are in dramatic form with a final poem in four verses.

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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