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Loading... Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best (1952)by Rudyard Kipling
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Somerset Maugham, an apprentice of sorts to Rudyard Kipling, has collected the master’s best short stories in this indispensable collection. Somerset Maugham, aprendiz de Rudyard Kipling, ha coleccionado los mejores cuentos del maestro en esta colección indispensable. No library descriptions found. |
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I found this to be a wonderful and fascinating collection of short stories. Kipling was a masterful story-teller, something that is evident on nearly every page of this collection. The stories are diverse in their settings, primarily India but also England and the United States. Similarly there is wide variety in the types of characters and the situations of their lives.
Three of the stories I enjoyed the most were "The Finest Story In The World," The Man Who Would Be King, and The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat. Here is just one example of the wonderful way in which Kipling uses the English language: "There was neither sky, sun, nor horizon, -nothing but a brown purple haze of heat. It was as though the earth were dying of apoplexy."
This is an excellent collection of short stories and I highly commend it. Most books I read and pass on to another home. This volume will remain here for future enjoyment, although it is available for loan. ( )