1925-1928 The Light That Failed, Captains Courageous, & The Naulahka

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Three volumes. Later editions. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. This set contains: The Light That Failed, 1925. The first novel from the author, set mostly in London with many important events occurring in Sudan and Port Said. The story follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited love for his childhood playmate, Maisie. Captain Courageous, 1927. Illustrated with twenty-one plates. Collated complete. Following the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlantic. The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, 1928. Originally serialized in The Century Magazine from November 1891 to July 1892, the book is set in the fictional state of "Rahore", believed to be based on Rajputana.