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The light that failed

by Rudyard Kipling

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Published by Doubleday, Page in New York .
Written in


Edition Notes

StatementWith scenes from the dramatic version rendered by Mr. Forbes Robertson and Miss Gertrude Elliott
The Physical Object
Pagination339 p.
Number of Pages339
ID Numbers
Open LibraryOL24173891M
OCLC/WorldCa4407307

The Light That Failed can also be seen as a sequence of images, a book strongly visualised and full of colour in an age before colour photography. There is a notable example in Chapter V, just after Dick’s reunion with Maisie, as he thinks back to their childhood, and memories of. The Light That Failed, novel by Rudyard Kipling, published in The book, which includes autobiographical elements, describes the youth and manhood of Dick Heldar and traces his efforts as a war correspondent and artist whose sketches of British .

The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes. Pegasus, $ (p) ISBN Buy this book Political scientists. *** Critics marvel that THE LIGHT THAT FAILED has never once been out of print, despite its being, in their view, of the third among perhaps five ranks in Kipling's voluminous writings. The novel has been twice transformed into a feature film, most recently in starring Ronald Colman as Dick Heldar.

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