![]() ![]() He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). There are terrible choices to be made between the love of the woman he treasures and the love of the men who stood by him at the front. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him-his life, his hopes, his dreams-fail with it. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of blindness, incurable-the result of a head wound he took during the war. ![]() When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist and encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. The Light That Failed is about a war correspondent and an artist, known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. ![]() Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Rudyard Kipling, 'The Light That Failed.' ![]()
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