The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling

"The Light That Failed" by Rudyard Kipling is a novel first published in 1891. It follows Dick Heldar, a war artist who returns to London from military campaigns in Sudan, only to face two devastating challenges: his progressive blindness from a battle wound and his unrequited love for Maisie, his childhood companion. As Dick struggles to complete his masterwork while his vision fails, he must confront whether art, love, or friendship can sustain him through darkness. Based on Kipling's own heartbreak, this semi-autobiographical tale explores passion, loss, and destiny. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Title The Light That Failed
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_That_Failed
Credits David Reed, and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 83.4 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subject Artists -- Fiction
Subject Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Subject Blindness -- Fiction
Subject War correspondents -- Sudan -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 2876
Release Date
Last Update Jan 31, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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