THE ATHENAEUMThe Light That FailedRudyard Kipling
Novel
The Light That Failed
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textDick Heldar draws the war in the Sudan for the illustrated papers, comes home famous, and finds that an old sword cut is slowly taking his sight. He loves Maisie, a painter he grew up with, who will not give up her own work to love him back. It was Kipling’s first novel, in 1891, and he wrote two endings: a happy one for the magazine, and the one he preferred for the book.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 50 min
- Where to find it
- On the Novel shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2876. In the public domain in the United States.