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" With the Night Mail " is a 1905 science fiction novella by Rudyard Kipling . Setting. The story is set in the early 21st century and describes the Aerial Board of Control, a fictional supranational organization dedicated to the control and aid of airship traffic across the whole world.
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With the Night Mail – The Kipling Society. by Rudyard Kipling. A NINE O’CLOCK of a gusty winter night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in “Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed”; and the Postmaster-General himself countersigned the order.
16 giu 2009 · WITH THE NIGHT MAIL. A STORY OF 2000 A.D. (TOGETHER WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY. MAGAZINE IN WHICH IT APPEARED) BOOKS BY RUDYARD KIPLING. Brushwood Boy, The. Captains Courageous.
Night Mail. This is the night mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The gradient's against her, but she's on time. Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder.
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- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
- 09008570
- Leyendecker, Frank X., 1877-1924
The story. It is the year 2000, and – powered by ‘Fleury’s Ray’ – a host of transatlantic aircraft, most of them lighter-than-air (airships), are flying across the air waves. The narrator is on board a mail plane, en route from London to Quebec.
With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. Rudyard Kipling. 3.06. 161 ratings38 reviews. Reprint of Kipling's delightful science fiction tale, first written in 1904, imagining a then-impossible overnight air flight from London to Canada, which takes place in December of the year 2000.
