Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Rudyard Kipling, 'The Day's Work - Volume 1'.
The Day's Work is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1898. There are no poems included between the different stories in The Day's Work, as there are in many other of Kipling's collections.
The stories in it are: 'The Bridge-Builders', 'A Walking Delegate', 'The Ship that Found Herself', 'The Tomb of His Ancestors', 'The Devil and the Deep Sea, 'William the Conqueror - part I', 'William the Conqueror - part II', '.007', 'The Maltese Cat', ''Bread upon the Waters'', 'An Error in the Fourth Dimension', 'My Sunday at Home', 'The Brushwood Boy'.
Josep Rudyard Kipling an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.
Kipli g's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including 'The Man Who Would Be King' (1888). His poems include 'Mandalay' (1890), 'Gunga Din' (1890), 'The Gods of the Copybook Headings' (1919), 'The White Man's Burden' (1899), and 'If-' (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting 'a versatile and luminous narrative gift'. |
