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can strongly recommend kipling's "with the night mail" and "easy as a.b.c.". i was amazed at how sophisticated they were - i would definitely have placed them w
by zem 10y ago
can strongly recommend kipling's "with the night mail" and "easy as a.b.c.". i was amazed at how sophisticated they were - i would definitely have placed them well within the golden age if didn't know when they were written.
- ghaff 10y agoIn general, there are a number of Victorian and Edwardian era authors who remain quite readable and come across as rather modern, or at least some of their writings do. Kipling--who actually won a nobel prize in literature--is one of them. For some reason, I find the British authors of that general period hold up better than the American authors in general.
- zem 10y agoyep, i'm a huge fan of kipling's writing in general, but what struck me about those stories was not that the writing sounded modern, but that they felt like modern science fiction in the topics they dealt with and the manner in which they were developed.
- ghaff 10y agoI actually haven't read those two particular stories but I have them now. Thanks.