Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Fri fragt over 499,-
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Bøger
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
Store besparelser
Fri fragt over 499,-
Hjem
Kategorier
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
FAQ
Konto
Kontakt
Kurv
  1. Bog
  2. Biografier
  3. Biografier: historie, politik og militær
The Long Recessional
- The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
Af: David Gilmour
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Long Recessional af David Gilmour, 9780712665186
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9780712665186
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0712665188
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
6 feb 2003
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,5 x 2,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
6 feb 2003
Forfatter(e):
Genre:

The Long Recessional

- The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
Af: David Gilmour
Engelsk
Paperback 2003
Format:
Paperback
Bog beskrivelse

Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he added more phrases to the language than any man since Shakespeare, yet he was also the Apostle of the British Empire, a man who incarnated an era for millions of people who did not normally read poetry. A child of the Victorian age of imperial self-confidence, Kipling lived to see the rise of Hitler threaten his country''s existence. The laureate of the Empire at its apogee, he foresaw that its demise would soon follow his death. His great poem ''Recessional'' celebrated Queen Victoria''s Diamond Jubilee in 1897; his last poems warned of the dangers of Nazism. The trajectory of his life matched the trajectory of the British Empire from its zenith to its final decades. He himself was transformed from the apostle of success to the prophet of national decline, a Cassandra warning of dangers that successive governments refused to face.

Previous works on Kipling have focused on his writing and on his domestic life. This is the first book to study his public role, his influence on the way Britons saw both themselves and their Empire. Based on extensive research in Britain and in the under-explored archives of the United States, David Gilmour has produced a brilliantly illuminating study of a man who embodied the spirit of his country a hundred years ago as closely as Shakespeare had done 300 years before.

... Vis mere
Forlags Vejl. pris
233,04 kr
Hos Booktok
193 kr
spar 17%
Læg i kurv nu
Sikker betaling
23 - 25 hverdage
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9780712665186
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0712665188
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
6 feb 2003
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,5 x 2,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
6 feb 2003
Forfatter(e):
Finder produkter...
Kategori sammenhænge