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Carregando... Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories (1890)de Rudyard Kipling
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Also includes: In an Opium Factory; Among the Railway Folk; To Be Filed for Reference; By Word of Mouth; Wressley of the Foreign Office; On the Strength of a Likeness; The Story of Muhammad Din; gate of the Hundred Sorrows; Drums in the Fore and Aft; His Majesty the King; Baa Baa Black Sheep. ( ) Some of Kipling's work holds up well against modern sensibilities - these stories don't. Tales of adultery and affairs, ghost stories, and sweetly lisping children - all set in British India. It is quite interesting to contrast the children in these stories ('I don't know what vat means,' said Wee Willie Winkie, 'but you mustn't call me Winkie any no more. I'm Percival Will'am Will'ams.') with the much more famous Kim. They are tougher and more moral than their elders, to the point of dying in front of them (The Drums of the Fore and Aft), so perhaps this is just a last flowering of Victorian sentimentalism. For those who have only seen the film of The Man who would be King, you will find the original tale rather different. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories begins with the tale of Percival William Williams (a.k.a. Wee Willie Winkie) and how one fateful journey forces him to enter his manhood and leave his childish ways behind him. This story and the delightful tales that follow are some of Kipling's best-loved works and paint an enduring picture of British life in the Indian Subcontinent. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)823.8Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Victorian period 1837-1900Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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