Barrack-room ballads
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first …
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- Full title :Barrack-room ballads / Rudyard Kipling ; with a new introduction and annotations by Andrew Lycett.
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient.
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Signet Classic
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
Notes
Previously published: Barrack-room ballads and other verses. London : Methuen, 1892.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 109 pages ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0451528867, 9780451528865
- oclc:ocm50859017
- LC Classification:PR4854
- Dewey Decimal:821/.8
Table of Contents
To T.A. -- Danny Deever -- Tommy -- "Fuzzy-wuzzy" -- Soldier, soldier -- Screw-guns -- Cells -- Gunga din -- Oonts -- Loot -- "Snarleyow" -- The widow at Windsor -- Belts -- The young British soldier -- Mandalay -- Troopin' -- The widow's party -- Ford o' KKabul river -- Gentlemen-randers -- Route marchn' -- Shillin' a day -- Prelude -- "Back to the army again" -- "Birds of prey" march -- "Soldier an' sailor too" -- Sappers -- That day -- The men that fought at Minden" -- Cholera camp -- The ladies -- Bill'Awkins -- The mother-lodge -- "Follow me 'Ome" -- The sergeant's weddin' -- The jacket -- The 'Eathen -- The shut-eye sentry -- "Mary, pity women!" -- For to admire -- L'envoi.
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