THE LIGHT THAT FAILED (with scenes from the Dramatic Version)
" The Light that Failed' is an organic whole — a book with a backbone — and stands out boldly among the nerveless, flaccid, invertebrate things that enjoy an expensive but ephemeral existence in the circulating libraries." — The Athenæum.
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Dick Heldar, hero of Rudyard Kipling's novel "The Light that Failed" was an English artist, an orphan who had been brought up with another waif called Maisie by the hard-hearted Mrs. Jennett. In early manhood he goes to the front as a war-artist, and receives a saber cut which threatens his eyesight. He determines to produce one great masterpiece before he goes blind. The light fails just as he has finished his picture, and that is destroyed by a model who owes him a grudge. Maisie refuses to marry him. Darkness of mind and body settled down upon him, and he sacrifices his life in the Soudan.
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This edition includes eight photogravures from scenes of the 'Dramatic Version' as seen in the Doubleday, Page & Company edition of 1903 and photographic portraits of the leading man and woman and the author.
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Dick Heldar, hero of Rudyard Kipling's novel "The Light that Failed" was an English artist, an orphan who had been brought up with another waif called Maisie by the hard-hearted Mrs. Jennett. In early manhood he goes to the front as a war-artist, and receives a saber cut which threatens his eyesight. He determines to produce one great masterpiece before he goes blind. The light fails just as he has finished his picture, and that is destroyed by a model who owes him a grudge. Maisie refuses to marry him. Darkness of mind and body settled down upon him, and he sacrifices his life in the Soudan.
* * * * * *
This edition includes eight photogravures from scenes of the 'Dramatic Version' as seen in the Doubleday, Page & Company edition of 1903 and photographic portraits of the leading man and woman and the author.
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED (with scenes from the Dramatic Version)
" The Light that Failed' is an organic whole — a book with a backbone — and stands out boldly among the nerveless, flaccid, invertebrate things that enjoy an expensive but ephemeral existence in the circulating libraries." — The Athenæum.
******
Dick Heldar, hero of Rudyard Kipling's novel "The Light that Failed" was an English artist, an orphan who had been brought up with another waif called Maisie by the hard-hearted Mrs. Jennett. In early manhood he goes to the front as a war-artist, and receives a saber cut which threatens his eyesight. He determines to produce one great masterpiece before he goes blind. The light fails just as he has finished his picture, and that is destroyed by a model who owes him a grudge. Maisie refuses to marry him. Darkness of mind and body settled down upon him, and he sacrifices his life in the Soudan.
* * * * * *
This edition includes eight photogravures from scenes of the 'Dramatic Version' as seen in the Doubleday, Page & Company edition of 1903 and photographic portraits of the leading man and woman and the author.
******
Dick Heldar, hero of Rudyard Kipling's novel "The Light that Failed" was an English artist, an orphan who had been brought up with another waif called Maisie by the hard-hearted Mrs. Jennett. In early manhood he goes to the front as a war-artist, and receives a saber cut which threatens his eyesight. He determines to produce one great masterpiece before he goes blind. The light fails just as he has finished his picture, and that is destroyed by a model who owes him a grudge. Maisie refuses to marry him. Darkness of mind and body settled down upon him, and he sacrifices his life in the Soudan.
* * * * * *
This edition includes eight photogravures from scenes of the 'Dramatic Version' as seen in the Doubleday, Page & Company edition of 1903 and photographic portraits of the leading man and woman and the author.
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THE LIGHT THAT FAILED (with scenes from the Dramatic Version)
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| BN ID: | 2940015997088 |
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| Publisher: | OGB |
| Publication date: | 01/15/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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