Barrack-Room Ballads; Recessional Etc.
de Kipling, Rudyard
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Brentano's, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. New York: Brentano's, undated but circa 1905. 16mo, cloth covers illustrated in red, gold, green and white (see scans), gilt spine imprinting, 147 pp. Very Good; edge wear, corner tips worn, spine moderately darkened, rear hinge starting but strong, very early prior owner's script name on ffep. See scans. The Recessional referred to in the title is one of nineteen separate poem/songs appended to the main piece, "Barracks-Room Ballads". A famous Kipling title, here in a scarce edition, nicely decorated on the covers. See scans. L53n
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El Jul 24 2011, Feeney dijo:
Rudyard Kipling's two-part (1892, 1896) BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS is holding up as a good read more than a century after its 38 poems first appeared in book form. *** These are soldier stories, Tommy stories, British GI in India Thomas Adkins stories. The points of view expressed usually come from rankers and non-coms in barracks in cantonments, from little people who put in their six years soldiering abroad for Queen Victoria and then go home to England, Ireland, Wales or Scotland. ***A half dozen of the ballads are still recited or sung today. -- (1) "Tommy": "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,/ But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you"; -- (2) "Gunga Din": "'E'll be squattin' on the coals/Givin' drink to poor damned souls,/An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!"; -- (3) "The Widow at Windsor"; -- (4) "Mandalay": "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,/Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"; -- (5) "Gentlemen-Rankers": "We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,/Baa! Baa! Baa!/We're little black sheep who've gone astray,/ Baa--aa--aa!/Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,/Damned from here to Eternity,/God ha' mercy on such as we,/Baa! Yah! Bah!"; -- (6) "Cholera Camp": "We've got to die somewhere -- some way -- some'ow --/We might as well begin to do it now!.; *** Other things being equal, buy a scholarly edition of BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. You will profit from some historical context on the 19th Century British Raj in India, also from a glossary of Hindustani or Anglo-Indian phrases as mauled by common soldiers and from a map or two as well. But even as stand-alone verses, BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS is a strong keeper. -OOO-
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- Librería
- Singularity Rare & Fine (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 005751
- Título
- Barrack-Room Ballads; Recessional Etc.
- Autor
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Brentano's
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1905
- Páginas
- 147
- Tamaño
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Palabras clave
- classics, poetry, england General, Classics, General, "English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Antiquarian; Classics of Fiction From All Eras; Poetry;
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Singularity Rare & Fine
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
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