The Day's Work

The Day's Work

by Rudyard Kipling
The Day's Work

The Day's Work

by Rudyard Kipling

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Overview

In The Day's Work, Kipling uses a series of short stories to examine labour and employment in a variety of different industries, be it shipping, transport or bridge building. The result is a masterly collection of writings dealing with such eternal themes as family dependency, obedience to command, and loyalty against all the odds.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789357277310
Publisher: Double 9 Booksllp
Publication date: 01/01/2023
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English artist, brief tale essayist, and author, primarily associated with his works for young children and supporting the British government. He was born in British India in the nineteenth century and was shipped off to England when he was six years old for his schooling. Later, he got back to India to start his profession as a columnist, however, shortly after coming here, he went back to his native country where he focused full time on writing. After his marriage, he lived for certain years in Vermont, USA, before returning to England. He was a skilled author whose books for children are respected as a work for children writing. It is accepted that at one point he was offered artist laureateship and on a few other events, he was considered for knighthood, yet he denied them. Be that as it may, he accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature, which made him the main English essayist to get the honour. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on 30th December, 1865 in Bombay (Mumbai), then known as British India. His parents named him after the Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, where they had met. His father, John Lockwood Kipling, was an artist and stoneware originator from North Yorkshire. After his marriage to Alice MacDonald, the young girl of Reverend George Browne MacDonald, they moved to India where he was delegated as a teacher of design form in the Jeejeebhoy School of Art. Rudyard had a sister, likewise named Alice, three years junior to him. Like most other British youngsters in India, they enjoyed most of the day with Indian babysitters and workers, paying attention to the extraordinary stories they told in their local tongue and exploring neighbourhood markets with them. Subsequently, Rudyard turned out to be more fluent in their language than in English. However, every one of these changed unexpectedly in 1871, when both the siblings were sent to homes in England to be instructed under the British framework. Showing up in England in October, they set up with Captain Pryse Agar Holloway and his significant other Sarah, who boarded offspring of British nationals serving in India in their home at Southsea, Portsmouth. Here he confessed to a school, however, found it difficult to change. Life at the cultivated home was difficult by the same token. ...

Table of Contents

The Bridge-Builders1
A Walking Delegate37
The Ship That Found Herself61
The Tomb of His Ancestors81
The Devil and the Deep Sea117
William the Conqueror--Part I143
William the Conqueror--Part II159
[degree]007181
The Maltese Cat201
'Bread Upon the Waters'223
An Error in the Fourth Dimension251
My Sunday at Home269
The Brushwood Boy285
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