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The Light That Failed

by Rudyard Kipling
David Thorn
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Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, well known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist and reencounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of an incurable blindness, the result of a head injury during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him—his life, hopes, and dreams—fails with it. Terrible choices must be made between the love of a woman and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.

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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged
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  • ISBN: 9781483081793
  • File size: 248360 KB
  • Release date: January 1, 2006
  • Duration: 08:37:24

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  • ISBN: 9781483081793
  • File size: 248388 KB
  • Release date: January 1, 2006
  • Duration: 08:44:23
  • Number of parts: 10

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Classic Literature Fiction Literature

Languages

English

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Text Difficulty:7-12

Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, well known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist and reencounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of an incurable blindness, the result of a head injury during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him—his life, hopes, and dreams—fails with it. Terrible choices must be made between the love of a woman and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.

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Classic Literature Fiction Literature