The Light That Failed
Rudyard Kipling
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Fiction, War correspondents -- Sudan -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, PR, Artists -- Fiction, Blindness -- Fiction, I
Downloads: 433
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Fiction, War correspondents -- Sudan -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, PR, Artists -- Fiction, Blindness -- Fiction, I
Downloads: 433
One of Kipling's most interesting novels, The Light that Failed hovers on the edge of sentimentality for most of its pages, never quite slipping. Dick Heldar is an artist, who becomes successful through drawings of a war in Sudan for one of the London newspapers - this being in the days before photographs filled the newspapers. Returning to London, he begins to work as a serious artist, and re-encounters his childhood playmate, Maisie, and falls in love with her. Just as he begins work on what is to be his masterpiece, he has to seek medical advice for a problem with his eyes and is told that he is going blind, incurably, as a result of the after affects of a head wound received in the Sudan.
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