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Traffics And Discoveries
''Traffics and Discoveries'' is a collection of poems and short stories by Rudyard Kipling, published by Macmillan and Co. of London and Doubleday, Page of New York in 1904. Stories (11): * The Captive * The Bonds of Discipline * A Sahibs' War * "Their Lawful Occasions" (as Part I and Part II) * The Comprehension of Private Copper * Steam Tactics * "Wireless" * The Army of a Dream (as Part I and Part II) * "They" * Mrs. Bathurst * Below the Mill Dam One poem precedes each story, as in many Kipling collections: *''From the Masjid-Al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed (Wahabi)'' *''Poseidon's Law'' *''The Runners'' *''The Wet Litany'' *''The King's Task'' *''The Necessitarian'' *'' Kaspar's Song in "Varda"'' *''Song of the Old Guard'' *''The Return of the Children'' *''From Lyden's "Irenius"'' *''"Our Fathers Also"'' The use of italic font for all poem titles only follows the Contents list in the first edition (London: Macmillan and Co., 1904). The use of quotation marks follows that list, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traffics And Discoveries
''Traffics and Discoveries'' is a collection of poems and short stories by Rudyard Kipling, published by Macmillan and Co. of London and Doubleday, Page of New York in 1904. Stories (11): * The Captive * The Bonds of Discipline * A Sahibs' War * "Their Lawful Occasions" (as Part I and Part II) * The Comprehension of Private Copper * Steam Tactics * "Wireless" * The Army of a Dream (as Part I and Part II) * "They" * Mrs. Bathurst * Below the Mill Dam One poem precedes each story, as in many Kipling collections: *''From the Masjid-Al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed (Wahabi)'' *''Poseidon's Law'' *''The Runners'' *''The Wet Litany'' *''The King's Task'' *''The Necessitarian'' *'' Kaspar's Song in "Varda"'' *''Song of the Old Guard'' *''The Return of the Children'' *''From Lyden's "Irenius"'' *''"Our Fathers Also"'' The use of italic font for all poem titles only follows the Contents list in the first edition (London: Macmillan and Co., 1904). The use of quotation marks follows that list, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story has been recurrently problematic. A classic definition of a short story i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the ''Jungle Book'' duology ('' The Jungle Book'', 1894; '' The Second Jungle Book'', 1895), ''Kim'' (1901), the '' Just So Stories'' (1902) 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 seen as an innovator in the art of the short story.Rutherford, Andrew (1987). General Preface to the Editions of Rudyard Kipling, in "Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies", by Rudyard Kipling. Oxford University Press. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".Rutherford, Andrew ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macmillan And Co
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers. Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, the firm would soon establish itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian era children’s literature, Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'' (1894). Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986. Since 1999, Macmillan has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than thirty others. History Macmillan was founded in London in 1843 by Dani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wireless (story)
"Wireless" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in '' Scribner's Magazine'' in 1902, and was later collected in ''Traffics and Discoveries''. The sister-poem accompanying it, ''Butterflies'' or ''Kaspar's Song in Varda'', Kipling claimed to have been a translation of an old Swedish poem (''from the Swedish of Stagnelius''), although this claim is unsubstantiated. Plot The narrator (Kipling) is visiting a chemist friend who is experimenting with short-wave radio. He is attempting to make contact with another enthusiast, several miles distant. They are passing a restless night, concocting the most marvelous cocktails from the chemicals at hand, and the narrator succeeds in drugging Mr Shaynor, the chemist’s assistant, who is suffering from last stage consumption. Shaynor has all the night been expressing his approval of a certain young lady in a toilet-water advertisement, and as he slips into a trance, he begins to indite poetry towards her. To the narr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Army Of A Dream
"The Army of a Dream" is a speculative fiction short story written by Rudyard Kipling, published in the ''Morning Post'' in June 1904. In it Kipling puts forward various methods for reforming the British Army of the period. Plot The story begins with an army officer taking the unnamed narrator to visit his military unit, the ''Tynesiders''. It is revealed that in this parallel Britain envisaged by Kipling, military service for males is voluntary, but almost universal, because only those who have served may vote, along with a number of other incentives. The result is a form of citizen militia composed of competent men focused on dealing with any threat to their community and nation. In addition to ensuring home defence this "Army of a Dream" contains special units intended for overseas colonial service and for possible intervention in Europe. The complex and idealised military system of Kipling's imagination includes features such as rudimentary training for boys beginning at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Works Of Rudyard Kipling
This is a bibliography of works by Rudyard Kipling, including books, short stories, poems, and collections of his works.''Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliographic Catalogue'', James McG. Stewart, ed. A.W. Yeats (Dalhousie University Press, Toronto), 1959 Books (These are short story collections except as noted. Listed by year of publication.) * ''The City of Dreadful Night'' (1885), short story – later published as ''The City of the Dreadful Night'' in Little Blue Book No. 357 * ''Departmental Ditties'' (1886), poetry * ''Plain Tales from the Hills'' (1888) ** "Lispeth" (short story) ** "Three and - an Extra" (short story) ** "Thrown Away" (short story) ** "Miss Youghal's Sais" (short story) ** "'Yoked with an Unbeliever'" (short story) ** "False Dawn" (short story) ** "The Rescue of Pluffles" (short story) ** "Cupid's Arrows" (short story) ** "The Three Musketeers" (short story) ** "His Chance in Life" (short story) ** "Watches of the Night" (short story) ** "The Other Man" (short sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1904. Events *January **Mark Twain begins dictating his ''Autobiography of Mark Twain, Autobiography''. **The first issue of ''Süddeutsche Monatshefte'' is published in Munich by Paul Nikolaus Cossmann. *January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, ''The Cherry Orchard'' («Вишнëвый сад», ''Vishnevyi sad''), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski. *February 25 – J. M. Synge's tragedy ''Riders to the Sea'' is first performed at Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society. *March 1 – Sophie Radford de Meissner's translation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 1863 historical drama ''The Death of Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Terrible'' is first played at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway theatre, Broadway, New York City, by Richard Mansfield. *April 24 – A Lithuanian press ban in the Russian Empire is lifted. Petras Vileišis installs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. History HathiTrust was founded in October 2008 by the twelve universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the eleven libraries of the University of California. The partnership includes over 60 research libraries across the United States, Canada, and Europe, and is based on a shared governance structure. Costs are shared by the participating libraries and library consortia. The repository is administered by the University of Michigan. The executive director of HathiTrust is Mike Furlough. The HathiTrust Shared Print Program is a distributed collective collection whose participating libraries have committed to retaining almost 18 million monograph volumes for 25 years, representing three-quarters of HathiTrus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Works By Rudyard Kipling
Works may refer to: People * Caddy Works (1896–1982), American college sports coach * Samuel Works (c. 1781–1868), New York politician Albums * '' ''Works'' (Pink Floyd album)'', a Pink Floyd album from 1983 * ''Works'', a Gary Burton album from 1972 * ''Works'', a Status Quo album from 1983 * ''Works'', a John Abercrombie album from 1991 * ''Works'', a Pat Metheny album from 1994 * ''Works'', an Alan Parson Project album from 2002 * ''Works Volume 1'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * ''Works Volume 2'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * '' The Works'', a 1984 Queen album Other uses * Microsoft Works, a collection of office productivity programs created by Microsoft * IBM Works, an office suite for the IBM OS/2 operating system * Mount Works, Victoria Land, Antarctica See also * The Works (other) The Works may refer to: Music * ''The Works'' (Queen album), 1984 album by the British rock band Queen * ''The Works'' (Nik Kershaw album), 1989 album by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
