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The Light That Failed is a book by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1890 in Lippincott's Regular Mag dated January 1891. A lot of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story happen in Sudan or India. The Light that Failed uses the life of Dick Heldar, a painter who goes blind. A play by George Fleming, starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, his partner Gertrude Elliott, and Sydney Valentine, was first staged in the West End from Feb to Apr 1903[1] and moved on to Broadway in November, making the story more famous.It was made into a 1916 silent film by Journeyé, with Robert Edeson and Jose Collins, a 1923 silent film by Famous Players-Lasky, and a 1939 film by Paramount, starring Ronald Colman as Heldar, with Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino, and Walter Huston............ Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( 30 Dec 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short testimonies, including "THE PERSON WHO Be Ruler" (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's seen as a major innovator in the artwork of the short tale; his children's catalogs are classics of children's books; and one critic detailed his are exhibiting "a functional and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in britain, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early on 20th centuries. Henry Wayne said: "Kipling attacks me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I've ever before known." In 1907, at age 42, he was awarded the Nobel Award in Books, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its own youngest recipient at this point.He was also sounded out for the English Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed based on the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him prolonged for a lot of the 20th hundred years.George Orwell called him a "prophet of English imperialism".Literary critic Douglas Kerr composed: "[Kipling] is still an author who is able to inspire excited disagreement and his devote literary and social history is definately not settled. But as age the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an matchless, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing identification of his outstanding narrative gifts, make him a power to be reckoned with."

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