Barrack Room Ballads

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

First collected in 1892, Kipling's "Barrack-Room Ballads" relive the experiences of soldiers sent around the world to defend the Empire-all for little pay and less appreciation. An immediate success, they were unlike anything the public had seen before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605975672
Publisher:	Book Jungle
Publication date:	05/08/2008
Pages:	84
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His fiction works include The Jungle Book — a classic of children’s literature — and the rousing adventure novel Kim, as well as books of poems, short stories, and essays. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.