by Rudyard Kipling · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192816719
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«Life's Handicap» is the collection of short stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling, published by Oxford Paperbacks in paperback (324 pages, in English).
The work brings together tales set in India under British rule and shows Kipling's interest in the contradictions of local society and in the relationship with administrators arriving from England. The narrative alternates adventure, observation of customs, and an ironic view of the empire.
The volume, published in 1987, belongs to Oxford University Press's World's Classics series and includes an introduction by A. O. J. Cockshut.
For readers of classic English fiction and scholars of colonial-period literature.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
