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Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems by Rudyard Kipling (1990, Trade Paperback)

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Product Description : In such poems as Gunga Din Mandalay Tommy Danny Deever If The White Mans Burden and The Female of the Species Rudyard Kipling 18651936 evoked stirring images and created archetypes of British character at the height of the Empire Filled with character study dramatic incident and rousing language the poems delineate the time place and ethos of British ascendancy as surely as a novel or history of the period yet they possess a timelessness and universality that lifts them above the purely temporalReaders will find in this choice selection of 44 poems reprinted from authoritative editions not only a glimpse of the Empire but the works of a vigorous and original poet who brought the language apt and colorful turns of phrase we still cherish