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The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling Miękka oprawa – 1 sierpnia 2019

Wydanie: Angielski David Gilmour (Autor)
4,2 4,2 z 5 gwiazdek Liczba ocen: 26
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'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew Roberts

David Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His famous poem 'Recessional' celebrated Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, but his last poems warned of the dangers of Nazism, and in those intervening years Kipling, himself an icon of the Empire, was transformed from an apostle of success to a prophet of national decline. As Gilmour makes clear, Kipling's mysterious stories and poetry deeply influenced the way his readers saw both themselves and the British Empire, and they continue to challenge us today.

'A fine, fair and generous work ... Gilmour's celebrated life of Curzon demonstrated his mastery of imperial nuance and esoteric character, and he brings to this book just the right combination of empathy, distaste and
fastidious detachment ... there is never a flaccid line, and never a hasty judgement' Jan Morris, New Statesman

'Every now and again a book comes along that sheds new light on a life we thought we knew. David Gilmour's beautifully-written biography of Rudyard Kipling is just such a work ... This is literary biography at its very finest' George Rosie, Sunday Herald

'An enthralling biography of a mind ... essential reading for anyone who cares about how a writer finds, and passionately lives, his subject' Ruth Padel, Daily Telegraph

'The best Kipling biography yet written ... Gilmour's account of this driven man shines with intelligence' J. B. Pick, Scotsman

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    384 str.
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    Penguin Books Ltd
  3. Data publikacji
    1 sierpnia 2019
  4. Wymiary
    19.8 x 12.9 x 2.21 cm
  5. ISBN-10
    0141990880
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0141990880
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Recenzja

An enthralling biography of a mind ... essential reading for anyone who cares about how a writer finds, and passionately lives, his subject -- Ruth Padel ― Daily Telegraph

The best Kipling biogaphy yet written ... Gilmour's account of this driven man shines with intelligence -- J. B. Pick ― Scotsman

A fine, fair and generous work ... Gilmour's celebrated life of Curzon demonstrated his mastery of imperial nuance and esoteric character, and he brings to this book just the right combination of empathy, distaste and fastidious detachment -- Jan Morris ― New Statesman

O autorze

David Gilmour is one of Britain's most admired and accomplished historical writers and biographers. He is the author of lives of George Curzon (Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (Elizabeth Longford Prize) and of The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj, an acclaimed study of the administrators of Victorian India. His other works include The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples, The Last Leopard, a biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (Marsh Biography Award) as well as several books on the modern history of Spain and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Research Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.

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  • Wydawca ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books Ltd (1 sierpnia 2019)
  • Miękka oprawa ‏ : ‎ 384 str.
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141990880
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141990880
  • Wymiary ‏ : ‎ 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.21 cm
  • Recenzje klientów:
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T. J. Jones
5,0 z 5 gwiazdek Good Kipling Biography
Opinia napisana w Wielkiej Brytanii dnia 28 sierpnia 2022
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David Gilmour is an excellent biographer, warm and sympathetic, appreciative of Kipling's genius, but makes no attempt to defend him at his reactionary worst. Describes Kipling correctly as a poet & a prophet, though he refused most official honours he was the unofficial poet of the British Empire, and his poems & short stories bring to life the experiences of the British army, adventurers and bureaucrats particularly in India. And of course his work for children, Just So Stories & Jungle Book, are wonderfully inventive and child friendly, Gilmour says one great pity of Kipling's life is that due to tragedy, he had no grandchildren, but he would have been a perfect grandfather.
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Mr Jeffrey Le Faucheur
5,0 z 5 gwiazdek One of the famous writers of animals and stories of the British Raj of India
Opinia napisana w Australii dnia 24 czerwca 2021
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Rudyard Kipling was a Mason with a prolific, enticing, entertaining and enriching writer of animals plus stories of the British Raj (Empire) - one of my favourite authors that left an imprint on me to date.
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Mudman
5,0 z 5 gwiazdek great seller! no problem whatsoever!
Opinia napisana w Stanach Zjednoczonych dnia 10 listopada 2014
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Best work to date on the life of Mr. Kipling. This is, in fact, the final word of this great man.
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mr blue
4,0 z 5 gwiazdek Kipling the prophet.
Opinia napisana w Wielkiej Brytanii dnia 19 października 2017
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I enjoyed this because
it's the right length though a further forty pages could have been good
it concentrates largely on one aspect of Kipling - the public man
the paperback copy is clearly printed with adequately produced illustrations.
It's downsides? Not the easiest prose style to read. Also, that as we move into the twentieth century, Kipling becomes largely a reactionary grump. I wonder if the author meant to give this impression as strongly as he did, and some extra text could have tempered this viewpoint.
But this is a book to be recommended, without a doubt.
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R. M. Peterson
4,0 z 5 gwiazdek Kipling Re-considered
Opinia napisana w Stanach Zjednoczonych dnia 10 listopada 2007
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At a time when the "politically correct" holds sway in much of the media for intellectuals and all too much of academia, Rudyard Kipling is persona non grata -- the author of charming Victorian children's tales, but irredeemably tainted as an advocate and apologist for the British Empire and its subjugation of so many blacks and browns in the world. This biography of Kipling shows that the popular image de jour of Kipling is oversimplified and, at bottom, unfair and wrong.

David Gilmour deliberately focuses on the "imperial" Kipling, or the political (as opposed to the literary) aspect of his life. Of course, it is impossible to cleave Kipling into two selves, one political and the other literary. No one can be so compartmentalized, but Kipling resists it more than most because he was so unabashedly a political writer. And Gilmour chooses to emphasize that fact by exploring Kipling's politics and his view of the British Empire, as well as his role in celebrating it and then mourning its imminent demise (Kipling died before World War II and the death throes of empire). As Gilmour puts it in his preface: "This is the first volume to chronicle Kipling's political life, his early role as apostle of the Empire, the embodiment of imperial aspiration, and his later one of the prophet of national decline."

Gilmour achives his objective quite well. His Kipling -- as I believe is true of the actual Kipling -- was NOT a jingoistic rascist (although, to be sure, certain lines of his taken as they say out of context could be stretched and cited for the opposite conclusion). Yes, Kipling was a Victorian Englishman who grew up amidst, and believed in, the glory of the British Empire. But, as Gilmour persuasively writes, the empire Kipling touted and valued was a civilizing, even humanitarian, force -- an empire of "peace and justice, quinine and canals, railways and vaccinations". His model of empire had no place for the missionary zeal to transform all the Empire's subjects into brown or black (depending on their class) fish-and-chippers or public-school-educated Church-of-Englanders. Moreover, to Kipling, it was the altruistic responsibility of the wealthy, civilized haves of the world (principally Great Britain and the United States) to relieve suffering and improve the lot in life of the myriad have nots.

Gilmour's biography shows, without explicit lecturing, that Kipling was not a stock "stiff-upper-lip" Victorian cardboard cut-out; he was human, with weaknesses he sought both to overcome and to mask, and with a strength of character that ultimately more than redeems him.

Gilmour does not ignore, but he does not dwell on, the literary side of Kipling. For that, the reader must go elsewhere. But for a sensitive yet objective picture of "Kipling as a figurehead of his country and his age", I don't know where else one should or would care to look.
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