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  2. Tommy (Kipling poem) - Wikipedia

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    Tommy" is an 1890 poem [1] by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 Barrack-Room Ballads. [2] The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. [ 3 ] It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war.

  3. Barrack-Room Ballads - Wikipedia

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    In Eliot's view, this makes Kipling a 'ballad-writer', and that was already, he thought, more difficult in 1941 than in Kipling's time, as people no longer had the music hall to inspire them. [4] Eliot thought Kipling's ballads unusual, also, in that Kipling had been careful to make it possible to absorb each ballad's message on a single hearing.

  4. The Light That Failed - Wikipedia

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    The Light That Failed is the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling, first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said.

  5. Limits and Renewals - Wikipedia

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    Limits and Renewals is a short story collection published by Rudyard Kipling in 1932. [1] Contents ... This page was last edited on 15 April 2022, at 18:47 (UTC).

  6. The Thin Red Line (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel portrays battle realistically, including several particularly gruesome acts depicted as natural responses to the soldiers' environment, such as the disinterring of a Japanese corpse for fun, the summary execution of Japanese prisoners, and the extraction of their corpses' gold teeth. The novel explores the idea that modern war is an ...

  7. The Day's Work - Wikipedia

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    The Day's Work is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1898. 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.

  8. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Wikipedia

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    Later edition cover of "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 short story collection The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. [1] It has often been anthologized and published several times as a short book.

  9. The Bell Buoy - Wikipedia

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    Some changes to the wording occurred sometime between the edition in McClure's and when it was collected in Rudyard Kipling's verse: inclusive edition, 1885-1918 (1919) as "The Bell Buoy". The other changes are minor and some may be the correction of printing errors. T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection A Choice of Kipling's Verse.