The City of Dreadful Night

by Rudyard Kipling

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet.

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Kipling describes Calcutta in detail. He is funny. Wit, humor, sarcasm, elegance, doughty imperialism, relentlessly racist, and witheringly in thrall to the language and diversities of the world.

This book includes "American Notes" - seven short essays on San Francisco, Chicago, the Mormons, cowboys, women, trains and traveling. He seems to hold the "pioneer" [that's derisive] American press in lower contempt than the newspapers of India, which are dull but never "blackguardly". [139]

keylawk | Jan 13, 2014 |

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English short stories of the nineteenth century by Heinz Bergner

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