• Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire by Philip Mason, 1975 Harper & Row first US edition hardcover - front of dust jacket
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Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire

Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire

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Book Notes: Boards show moderate shelf wear; binding tight. Pages in good shape with some writing and underlining. Dust jacket shows moderate wear. Bookplate of Phyllis Greenacre on the front pastedown, with pencil notes above it. Unconfirmed, but possibly from the library of the New York psychoanalyst Phyllis Greenacre (1894-1989), who wrote psychoanalytic studies of writers' lives.

Author(s): Philip Mason
Edition: First US Edition

Print: 1st Print

Publication year: 1975

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Harper & Row

Condition: Good
ISBN: 9780060128333

Philip Mason's study of Rudyard Kipling, part biography and part criticism. It gives enough of Kipling's life to illuminate the work and concentrates on the stories rather than the poems, asking why Kipling drew such strong hostility and devotion, why readers have preferred his early work to his later work, and why he published weaker work alongside his best. Includes lists of principal events in Kipling's life and of his principal books, and an index. 1975 Harper & Row first U.S. edition.

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