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Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.

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 seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers 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, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.

Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of 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."

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"Mulvaney, Ortheris og Learoyd er alle menige i B-kompagniet af et linjeregiment og hører til mine personlige venner. Taget en bloc tror jeg næppe, at der findes en værre bande i hele regimentet, når det gælder om at få en gavtyvestreg på benene. Tror nogen at vide bedre, vil jeg imidlertid ikke påtvinge dem min mening.

Mine tre musketerer deler penge, tobak og drikkevarer med hinanden, de står last og brast sammen i kaserne eller lejr, de fryder sig alle, når den ene har oplevet noget glædeligt – og de har også alle sorger fælles. Når Ortheris' ustyrlige tunge har bragt ham i brummen for en tid, eller når Learoyd har spoleret sin mundering, eller når Mulvaney har drukket sig en tår over tørsten og under alkoholens indflydelse været grov mod sine overordnede, kan man læse ulykken i ansigterne på de to, der ikke direkte har haft med sagen at gøre. Og så ved resten af regimentet, at det ikke er sikkert at komme med bemærkninger eller vittigheder om det skete. I reglen holder de tre sig i skindet og overlader de gale streger til unge mennesker, der endnu ikke har løbet hornene af sig; men der kan jo forekomme tilfælde – –"

Kiplings første historie om de tre menige soldater i Hendes kejserlige Majestæts indiske armé: ireren Terence Mulvaney, londoneren Stanley Ortheris, og yorkshiremanden John Learoyd og deres til tider noget misliebige bedrifter i felten og på kasernen blev udgivet i 1887, og over de næste 5-6 år dukkede de op i 16 fortællinger.

Fortællingerne foreligger her for første gang samlet på dansk; så vidt det har kunnet lade sig afdække i den rækkefølge, der følger af udviklingen i de tre soldaters personlige forhold og de begivenheder, der hentydes til.

Indhold:

  • Greenhow Banke
  • Sorte Jack
  • En Deus ex machina
  • Mulvaneys spøgelseshistorie
  • Hans Højhed elefanten
  • Mulvaneys frieri
  • Regimentets datter
  • De tre musketerer
  • Stormen på Lungtungpen
  • Learoyds fortælling
  • I hovedvagten
  • Pigernes Jens
  • Ortheris' galskab
  • Hvorledes Mulvaney blev til en gud
  • En menigs ære
  • De hjempermitterede
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Udgivelsesdato31 maj 2017
Udgivet afeBibliotek 1800
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ISBN epub9788779795419