Dick Heldar and Maisie grow up together as unhappy children in a seaside lodging house. Years later Dick has made his name as a war artist in the Sudan campaign and returns to London with his friends Torpenhow and the Nilghai, determined to win Maisie, who wants her own career as a painter, just as an old head wound begins to take his sight.
Kipling’s first novel (1891), a raw study of art, ambition and masculine comradeship, printed here in the version he first conceived. Download the free EPUB.