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    With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.
    With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.
    With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.
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    With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.

    By Rudyard Kipling

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    Rudyard Kipling's thrilling science fiction novella With the Night Mail, follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather. Meanwhile, a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control enforces a rigid system of command and control in the skies and in world affairs, too.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9781974997251
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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      With the Night Mail - Rudyard Kipling

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      WITH THE NIGHT MAIL

      A STORY OF 2000 A.D.

      By

      RUDYARD KIPLING

      Illustrated in Color BY

      FRANK X. LEYENDECKER

      AND H. REUTERDAHL

      This edition published by Dreamscape Media LLC, 2018

      www.dreamscapeab.com * info@dreamscapeab.com

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      dreamscape

      About Rudyard Kipling:

      Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

      Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature, and one critic described his work as exhibiting a versatile and luminous narrative gift.

      Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.

      Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell saw Kipling as a jingo imperialist, who was morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: [Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.

      Source: Wikipedia

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      WITH THE NIGHT MAIL

      AERIAL BOARD OF CONTROL BULLETIN

      NOTES

      CORRESPONDENCE

      REVIEWS

      ADVERTISING SECTION

      A MAN WITH A GHASTLY SCARLET HEAD FOLLOWS, SHOUTING THAT HE MUST GO BACK AND BUILD UP HIS RAY.

      WITH THE NIGHT MAIL

      At nine o'clock of a gusty winter night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed; and the Postmaster-General himself countersigned the order. This talisman opened all doors, even those in the despatching-caisson at the foot of the tower, where they were delivering the sorted Continental mail. The bags lay packed close as herrings in the long gray under-bodies which our G.P.O. still calls coaches. Five such coaches were filled as I watched, and were shot up the guides to be locked on to their waiting packets three hundred feet nearer the stars.

      From the despatching-caisson I was conducted by a courteous and wonderfully learned official—Mr. L.L. Geary, Second Despatcher of the Western Route—to the Captains' Room (this wakes an echo of old romance), where the mail captains come on for their turn of duty. He introduces me to the Captain of 162—Captain Purnall, and his relief, Captain Hodgson. The one is small and dark; the other large and red; but each has the brooding sheathed glance characteristic of eagles and aëronauts. You can see it in the pictures of our racing professionals, from L.V. Rautsch

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