The Light That Failed By Rudyard Kipling

In 1/1878 Kipling was admitted to the United Services College, at Westward Ho!, Devon, a school founded a few years earlier to prepare boys for the armed forces.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

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ISBN: 9798695731194

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In 1/1878 Kipling was admitted to the United Services College, at Westward Ho!, Devon, a school founded a few years earlier to prepare boys for the armed forces. The school proved rough going for him at first, but led to firm friendships & provided the setting for his schoolboy stories Stalky & Co., published years later. During his time there, he met & fell in love with Florence Garrard, the model for Maisie in his 1st novel, The Light That Failed, initially published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.Dick Heldar is a war correspondent & an artist, known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist & encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. They fall in love. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of blindness, incurable--the result of a head wound he took during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, his hopes, his dreams--fail with it. There are terrible choices to be made between the love of the woman he treasures & the love of the men who stood by him at the front.
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The Light that Failed

The twelve-chapter Lippincott version of Kipling's first novel, with a happy ending.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock

ISBN: HARVARD:32044086830106

Category: Artists

Page: 219

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The twelve-chapter Lippincott version of Kipling's first novel, with a happy ending.
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The Light That Failed

However as his hopes slowly turn to dust, Kipling completes his frighteningly realistic survey of physical and psychological breakdown.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: House of Stratus

ISBN: 9780755117277

Category: Fiction

Page: 246

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Dick Heldar, artist and journalist, struggles to rise above his cruel beginnings and neglected childhood to grasp at a chance for happiness in later life. However as his hopes slowly turn to dust, Kipling completes his frighteningly realistic survey of physical and psychological breakdown.
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The Light that Failed

In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation.

Author: Ivan Krastev

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 9780241345719

Category: Political Science

Page: 256

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A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized. Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and Orbán's Hungary into models for the United States. Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light that Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of our Age of Imitation.
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The Light that Failed

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe

ISBN: LCCN:52048512

Category: Artists

Page: 451

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A war correspondent and artist whose sketches of British battles in the Sudan become popular returns to London where he begins painting his masterpiece, racing against time because a battle wound has caused his eyesight to progressively fail.
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The Light that Failed

Author: Rudyard Kipling

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ISBN: OCLC:4240820

Category: Artists

Page: 355

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First published in 1891, this work is Rudyard Kipling's semi-autobiographical first novel. Critics who had praised his Anglo-Indian short stories were shocked by the unhappy ending and deviation from his usual style. None, however, could deny the power of Kipling's writing. This is the story of war artist Dick Heldar, his doomed relationship with Maisie, and his descent into blindness. Through Dick, Kipling considers the relationship between Art and Life, espousing his belief that the artist has a duty to paint only what he knows to be true.
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The Light That Failed

Редьярд Киплинг. Rudyard Kipling The Light That Failed CHAPTER I So we
settled it all when the storm.

Author: Редьярд Киплинг

Publisher: Litres

ISBN: 9785040827978

Category: Fiction

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Complete Novels of Rudyard Kipling The Light That Failed Kim Stalky Co Captain Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks The Naulahka A Story of West and East Illustrated

The Light That Failed + Kim + Stalky & Co. + Captain Courageous - A Story of the
Grand Banks + The N Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling Complete Novels of
Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed + Kim + Stalky & Co. + Captain
Courageous ...

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: e-artnow

ISBN: 9788026843900

Category: Fiction

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Complete Novels of Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed + Kim + Stalky & Co. + Captain Courageous - A Story of the Grand Banks + The Naulahka - A Story of West and East (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Stalky & Co." is a novel about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. Reflecting its origins, the novel is episodic in nature, with self-contained chapters. It is set at an unnamed school referred to as the College or the Coll., which is based on the United Services College in Devon, which Kipling attended. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly based on Kipling himself, while the charismatic character Stalky is based on Lionel Dunsterville, M'Turk is based on George Charles Beresford and Mr. King is based on William Carr Crofts. "Kim" is and adventure novel about the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. "Captains Courageous" follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. "The Light That Failed" is a psychological novel. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter who goes blind. "Naulahka: A Story of East and West", is an adventure novels, the story of a priceless Indian jewel.
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The Lights that Failed

The place and date, which marked the anniversary of the founding of the German
empire in the Hall of Mirrors at the French ... harsh terms would ensure a second
war'.1 Such simplistic assessments, which view 1919 solely in the light of 1939, ...

Author: Zara S. Steiner

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0198221142

Category: History

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In 'The Lights that Failed', Steiner challenges the assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening of a second European war and provides an analysis of the attempts to reconstruct Europe during the 1920s.
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