The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years' service a man is directly or indirectly acquainted with the two or three hundred Civilians in his Province, all the Messes of ten or twelve Regiments and Batteries, and some fifteen hundred other people of the non-official caste. In ten years his knowledge should be doubled, and at the end of twenty he knows, or knows something about, every Englishman in the Empire, and may travel anywhere and everywhere without paying hotel-bills. Globe-trotters who expect entertainment as a right, have, even within my memory, blunted this open-heartedness, b…
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Weitere Autoren: 1stworld Library (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4218-4209-7
- EAN: 9781421842097
- Produktnummer: 3100250
- Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.2 cm 355 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 355
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was the popular Voice of British Empire who gained great acclaim with his poetry and literary works such as The Jungle Books. Dick Robinson is a leading proponent of The New Literature, a movement that places Slogans over arguments and explanations, that elevates the shouted phrase above the reasoned debate.
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