{"product_id":"the-best-short-stories-guy-de-maupassant","title":"The Best Short Stories; Rudyard Kipling","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content hb-content-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content-text hb-content-text-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social range. He gained immense popularity, becoming (as these stories indicate) the knowledgeable spokesman for a wide public.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content hb-content-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content-text hb-content-text-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater, although Kipling's right-wing views increasingly incurred hostility, his creativity remained formidable. In this rich collection, we encounter bold realism, poignant nostalgia, dark comedy, the vividly horrific, the exuberantly fanciful and the disturbingly uncanny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStories include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Courting of Dinah Shadd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Greenhow Hill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt the End of the Passage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Limitations of Pambé Serang\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Disturber of Traffic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘The Finest Story in the World’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Record of Badalia Herodsfoot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ship that Found Herself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Maltese Cat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘Wireless’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘They’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMrs Bathurst\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBelow the Mill Dam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content hb-content-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content-text hb-content-text-book-detail\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content hb-content-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content-text hb-content-text-book-detail\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content hb-content-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content-text hb-content-text-book-detail\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content-text hb-content-text-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content hb-content-book-detail\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content-text hb-content-text-book-detail\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content hb-content-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content-text hb-content-text-book-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content hb-content-book-detail\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"hb-content-text hb-content-text-book-detail\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"item-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"item-excerpt trunc\" data-height=\"230\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"item-tools\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"checkout-tools\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"price-info-wrap\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Secret Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32211766083654,"sku":"1857","price":4.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/8921\/4278\/products\/TheBestShortStories_RudyardKipling.jpg?v=1605778588","url":"https:\/\/www.thesecretbookstore.live\/products\/the-best-short-stories-guy-de-maupassant","provider":"The Secret Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}