by Rudyard Kipling · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853261794
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«The Best Short Stories» is Rudyard Kipling's anthology of short stories, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (240 pages, in English).
This collection brings together stories from different stages of Kipling's career, with tales set in colonial India, London and other exotic settings. The stories range from bold realism to nostalgia, dark comedy, the fantastic and the unsettling. They include celebrated pieces such as «The Maltese Cat», about a polo pony, as well as ghost stories, obsessions and fated destinies, showing the author's thematic breadth and narrative virtuosity.
Volume in the Wordsworth Classics collection, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts of the University of Sussex. This English edition was published in 1997.
Intended for readers of English classics who want a varied sample of Kipling's short fiction, from Victorian realism to horror and the supernatural.
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.
