An Unqualified Pilot
Title | An Unqualified Pilot PDF eBook |
Author | Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2014-11-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781503197855 |
An Unqualified Pilot is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936 was 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. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), the Just So Stories (1902), 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 enduring classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift." Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism." Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "He [Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.
Statutes in Force in the Colony of Queensland
Title | Statutes in Force in the Colony of Queensland PDF eBook |
Author | Queensland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1026 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
A Compendium of the Law of Merchant Shipping
Title | A Compendium of the Law of Merchant Shipping PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Philip Maude |
Publisher | |
Pages | 974 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | Maritime law |
ISBN |
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation
Title | A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation PDF eBook |
Author | John Ramsay McCulloch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1686 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Commerce |
ISBN |
The Public General Statutes Affecting Scotland
Title | The Public General Statutes Affecting Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Scotland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1194 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant-ships and Seamen
Title | A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant-ships and Seamen PDF eBook |
Author | Charles ABBOTT (Baron Tenterden.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 994 |
Release | 1856 |
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A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen. In 6 Parts. 10. Ed. by William Shee
Title | A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen. In 6 Parts. 10. Ed. by William Shee PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Lord Tenterden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 996 |
Release | 1856 |
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