Other editions of book The Selected Works of Rudyard Kipling, Volume One: Soldiers Three, In Black and White, The Story of the Gadsbys, The Phantom Rickshaw, and Wee Willie Winkie

Rudyard Kipling’s story, set in 1880s India, recounts the story of Dr. Heatherlegh’s patient, Jack Pansay, after a failed romance and slow decline of the woman as she slowly and pitiably fades in sadness to her death while he falls deeply in love with another woman. Yet in the time following this, Pansay is increasingly haunted by Agnes Keith-Wessington as she begins appearing - again and again - in a ghostly rickshaw that only he can see. Dr. Heatherlegh kindly takes Pansay into his care to save him from what he is convinced is a powerful delusion driven by overwork and guilt. But to Jack Pansay, it is all too real as he ponders his fate.

The Phantom Rickshaw & Other Eerie Tales brings together four of Kipling’s most-loved short stories. Each deals with events that can’t quite be explained away, whether a traditional ghost story, a terrifyingly realistic nightmare or an sumptuous and lavish romance. Powerful, exotic and extravagant, these tales are rated, by some, to be the best stories Kipling ever wrote, with The Man Who Would Be King being hailed as the finest story in the English language.Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in Bombay, India, and is best known for The Jungle Book series and is regarded as a major “innovator in the art of the short story”; his children’s books are enduring classics of children’s literature. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and he remains its youngest-ever recipient.However, later in life Kipling also came to be seen (in George Orwell’s words) as a “prophet of British imperialism.” Many saw prejudice and militarism in his works, and the resulting controversy about him continued for much of the 20th century. According to critic Douglas Kerr: “He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.”Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s and died of a brain haemorrhage in January of 1936 at the age of 70.

Blestyaschaya kniga ot samogo indijskogo iz anglijskih pisatelej - Redyarda Kiplinga. Inogda tak sluchaetsya, chto byvshie vozlyublennye ne dayut o sebe zabyt. Riksha-prizrak stanovitsya provodnikom dlya bespokojnyh duhov, i razum geroya riskuet povreditsya ot perepleteniya vidimogo i nevidimogo mirov. No chto delat muzhchine, esli eks-lyubovnitsa ne prekraschaet presledovat ego ne tolko posle ih rasstavaniya, no i... posle eyo sobstvennoj smerti?.. V etoj knige sobrany zamechatelnye rasskazy Redyarda Kiplinga, kotorye prodolzhayut pokoryat chitatelej vo vsyom mire. Chitajte zarubezhnuyu literaturu v originale!

The Phantom Rickshaw & Other Eerie Tales brings together four of Kipling’s most-loved short stories. Each deals with events that can’t quite be explained away, whether a traditional ghost story, a terrifyingly realistic nightmare or an sumptuous and lavish romance. Powerful, exotic and extravagant, these tales are rated, by some, to be the best stories Kipling ever wrote, with The Man Who Would Be King being hailed as the finest story in the English language.Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in Bombay, India, and is best known for The Jungle Book series and is regarded as a major “innovator in the art of the short story”; his children’s books are enduring classics of children’s literature. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and he remains its youngest-ever recipient.However, later in life Kipling also came to be seen (in George Orwell’s words) as a “prophet of British imperialism.” Many saw prejudice and militarism in his works, and the resulting controversy about him continued for much of the 20th century. According to critic Douglas Kerr: “He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.”Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s and died of a brain haemorrhage in January of 1936 at the age of 70.

Small decorated American trade binding. Size approx. 4-1/2" x 7". Green cloth boards with black and gold decoration, gold lettering on cover and spine. Lettering on cover is worn and difficult to read, also "phantom-like" on spine! Hint of very light soiling. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Nicely decorated endpapers. Short closed tear to outside edge of title page (1"); beautifully penned previous owner name and date on title page. 243 pages.