{"product_id":"9781101212912","title":"Barrack-Room Ballads","description":"\u003ci\u003eBarrack-Room Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e (1892) brought Rudyard Kipling instant success and established him as a “friend of the soldier.” At the time, British men generally enlisted to escape dire poverty, and the common soldier was held in low regard by the Victorian public—until he was needed to fight. Kipling had great compassion for the British soldier and chose to celebrate him while criticizing the Empire for its treatment of its fighting men. Told in the London Cockney dialect, \u003ci\u003eBarrack-Room Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e provided the public with a more insightful, sympathetic view of its soldiers. Featuring such famous poems as \u003ci\u003eTommy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDanny Deever\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFuzzy-Wuzzy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMandalay,\u003c\/i\u003e and the immortal \u003ci\u003eGunga Din, Barrack-Room Ballads \u003c\/i\u003eeloquently demonstrates Kipling’s reputation as the poet laureate of the British Empire. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith anintroduction and annotations by Andrew Lycett\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119061483760,"sku":"9781101212912","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101212912_p0.jpg?v=1763686697","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101212912","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}