The Eyes of Asia
de KIPLING, Rudyard
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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New York: doubleday, 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); green cloth over dark gray boards; paper title plate on cover and spine; dustjacket; 101pp.; A Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped with tears to the extremities; Very Good only.
The book consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier, which take place in 1915 and 1916. "A Retired Gentleman" and "The Fumes of the Heart" are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers, a Rajput and a Sikh, to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories, "The Private Account" is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front, and the final story, "A Trooper of Horse", takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother.
The book consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier, which take place in 1915 and 1916. "A Retired Gentleman" and "The Fumes of the Heart" are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers, a Rajput and a Sikh, to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories, "The Private Account" is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front, and the final story, "A Trooper of Horse", takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother.
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- Librería
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 52415
- Título
- The Eyes of Asia
- Autor
- KIPLING, Rudyard
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First American Edition
- Editorial
- doubleday
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1918
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Fiction;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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