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The Light That Failed is a haunting and powerful novel of human suffering, love and loss. In Dick Heldar, artist and journalist, we see a man struggling to rise above his cruel beginnings and neglected childhood to grasp at a chance for happiness in later life. However as his hopes slowly turn to dust, his determination and mental powers begin to drain away, and the onset of premature physical decline determines his final demise. In a shocking and tragic conclusion, Kipling completes his frighteningly realistic survey of physical and psychological breakdown.

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Rudyard Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). In addition to writing children's stories such as The Jungle Books and the Just So Stories, he wrote a number of classic novels about the time of British Imperialism including Kim and this audiobook. This book was published in 1891 and is a story of a lonely child, Dick Helder, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.

“What do you think she’d do if she caught us? We oughtn’t to have it, you know,” said Maisie.“Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom,” Dick answered, without hesitation. “Have you got the cartridges?”“Yes; they’re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?”“Don’t know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.”“I’m not afraid.” Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick followed with a small pin-fire revolver.The children had discovered that their lives would be unendurable without pistol-practice. After much forethought and self-denial, Dick had saved seven shillings and sixpence, the price of a badly constructed Belgian revolver. Maisie could only contribute half a crown to the syndicate for the purchase of a hundred cartridges. “You can save better than I can, Dick,” she explained; “I like nice things to eat, and it doesn’t matter to you. Besides, boys ought to do these things.”

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The Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited love for his childhood playmate, Maisie.It is Kipling's first novel, written when he was 26 years old, and is semi-autobiographical; being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard. Though it was poorly received by critics, the novel has managed to remain in print for over a century. It was also adapted into a play, two silent films as well as a drama film. The Light That Failed was poorly received by critics in the main. Jad Adams calls the novel richly revealing even though it was badly reviewed, especially its man-loving and misogynistic undercurrents. He calls it "... a metaphor for the failing gallantry of 19th-century man confronting the new woman." Andrew Lycett, in his biography of Kipling, called it a "grown-up novel by an emotionally immature man." It has been variously derided as "sentimental, unstructured, melodramatic, chauvinistic, and implausible." Kipling himself admitted in his autobiography that the novel was a conte (short tale of adventure) and not a built book. Lord Birkenhead calls the novel a "rotten apple" among Kipling's other published works. George Orwell, in an unsigned review of "Rudyard Kipling" by Edward Shanks, says, "Curiously enough, he (Shanks) has a very low opinion of that excellent novel The Light That Failed." (wikipedia.org)

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“What do you think she’d do if she caught us? We oughtn’t to have it, you know,” saidMaisie.“Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom,” Dick answered, without hesitation. “Haveyou got the cartridges?”“Yes; they’re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off oftheir own accord?”“Don’t know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.”“I’m not afraid.” Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in theair. Dick followed with a small pin-fire revolver.The children had discovered that their lives would be unendurable without pistolpractice. After much forethought and self-denial, Dick had saved seven shillings andsixpence, the price of a badly constructed Belgian revolver. Maisie could only contributehalf a crown to the syndicate for the purchase of a hundred cartridges. “You can save betterthan I can, Dick,” she explained; “I like nice things to eat, and it doesn’t matter to you.Besides, boys ought to do these things.”Dick grumbled a little at the arrangement, but went out and made the purchase, whichthe children were then on their way to test. Revolvers did not lie in the scheme of theirdaily life as decreed for them by the guardian who was incorrectly supposed to stand in theplace of a mother to these two orphans. Dick had been under her care for six years, duringwhich time she had made her profit of the allowances supposed to be expended on hisclothes, and, partly through thoughtlessness, partly through a natural desire to pain,—shewas a widow of some years anxious to marry again,—had made his days burdensome onhis young shoulders.

The Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited love for his childhood playmate, Maisie.It is Kipling's first novel, written when he was 26 years old, and is semi-autobiographical; being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard. Though it was poorly received by critics, the novel has managed to remain in print for over a century. It was also adapted into a play, two silent films as well as a drama film. The Light That Failed was poorly received by critics in the main. Jad Adams calls the novel richly revealing even though it was badly reviewed, especially its man-loving and misogynistic undercurrents. He calls it "... a metaphor for the failing gallantry of 19th-century man confronting the new woman." Andrew Lycett, in his biography of Kipling, called it a "grown-up novel by an emotionally immature man." It has been variously derided as "sentimental, unstructured, melodramatic, chauvinistic, and implausible." Kipling himself admitted in his autobiography that the novel was a conte (short tale of adventure) and not a built book. Lord Birkenhead calls the novel a "rotten apple" among Kipling's other published works. George Orwell, in an unsigned review of "Rudyard Kipling" by Edward Shanks, says, "Curiously enough, he (Shanks) has a very low opinion of that excellent novel The Light That Failed." (wikipedia.org)