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

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: anboco

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 3736413211

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. 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.

With the Night Mail
With the Night Mail

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher:

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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A novel that follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling the perfect storm. Between London and Quebec, a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control (A.B.C.) now enforces a technocratic system of command, and controls not only the skies but world affairs.

Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing
Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing

Author: Thomas Lloyd Vranken

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0429632681

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As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats. This book explores these formats, focusing (in particular) on the ways in which the periodical press first published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. What led magazines to publish excerpts from a forthcoming book, or an entire novel in a single issue, or a discontinuous short-story series? How did these experimental modes affect the act of reading? Drawing on a range of archival and other primary sources, Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialization addresses these and other questions.

As If
As If

Author: Michael Saler

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-01-09

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0195343166

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Many people throughout the world "inhabit" imaginary worlds communally and persistently, parsing Harry Potter and exploring online universes. These activities might seem irresponsibly escapist, but history tells another story. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, when Sherlock Holmes became the world's first "virtual reality" character, readers began to colonize imaginary worlds, debating serious issues and viewing reality in provisional, "as if" terms rather than through essentialist, "just so" perspectives. From Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and Tolkien's Middle-earth to the World of Warcraft and Second Life, As If provides a cultural history that reveals how we can remain enchanted but not deluded in an age where fantasy and reality increasingly intertwine.