Kipling's America Travel Letters, 1889-1895
"Kipling was just twenty-three years old when he reached San Francisco in May 1889; he immediately began recording the sights and sounds of boom-town America. For four months he toured the United States, publishing accounts of his journey in the Pioneer, a major newspaper in western India. A fe...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Greensboro, NC :
ELT Press, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2003.
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| Colección: | 1880-1920 British authors series ;
no. 17 |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429949406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: From sea to sea (1889)
- 1: Shows how I came to America before my time and was much shaken in body and soul by what I felt and heard
- 2: How I got to San Francisco and took tea with the natives there
- 3: Shows how through folly I assisted at a murder and was proportionally afraid, the rule of the democracy and the despotism of the alien
- 4: (untitled)
- 5: Tells how I dropped into politics and the tenderer sentiments, contains a moral treatise on American maidens and an ethnological one on the Hubshi. Ends with a banquet and a type-writer
- 6: Takes me through Bret Harte's country, and to Portland with "old man California." Explains how two vagabonds became homesick through looking at other people's houses
- 7: Shows how I caught salmon in the Clackamas and clothed myself in purple and triumph
- 8: Discusses the shortcomings of Tacoma-on-the-boom and Seattle-after-the-fire. Introduces a heretic
- 9: Takes me from Vancouver to the Yellowstone National Park-with a mean opinion of myself and a meaner of rayments's tourists
- 10: Shows how Yankee Jim introduced me to Diana of the crossways on the banks of the Yellowstone, and how a German Jew said I was no true citizen. Ends with the celebration of the 4th of July and a few lessons therefrom
- 11: Shows how I entered Mazanderan of the Persians and saw devils of every colour, and some troopers. Hell and the old lady from Chicago. The captain and the lieutenant
- 12: Ends with the canyon of the Yellowstone, the maiden from New Hampshire, Larry, "wrap-up-his-tail" Tom, the old lady from Chicago, and a few natural phenomena, including one Briton
- 13: Of the American army and the city of the saints. The temple, the book of Mormon, and the girl from Dorset. An Oriental consideration of polygamy
- 14: How I met certain people of importance between Salt Lake and Omaha
- 15: Across the great divide, and how the man Gring showed me the garments of the Ellewomen
- 16: How I struck Chicago, and how Chicago struck me. Of religion, politics, and pig-sticking,
- and the incarnation of the city among shambles
- 17. How I found peace at Musquash on the Monongahela
- 18. Tells how the professor and I found the precious ridiculousness and how they Chautauquacked at us. Puts into print some sentiments better left unrecorded, and proves that a neglected theory will blossom in congenial soil. Contains fragments of three lectures and a confession
- 19: Kipling's view of out defenceless coasts
- 20: Rudyard Kipling on Mark Twain
- II: From tideway to Tideway (1892-1895)
- 1: In sight of Monadnock
- 2: Across the continent (excerpt)
- 3: What Rudyard Kipling saw on his way back from Japan (excerpt)
- 4: On one side only
- 5: From a winter note-book (1895).
