The Light That Failed

by Rudyard Kipling · 1891

Dick Heldar, a war artist who wins fame after the Sudan campaigns, slowly goes blind while pining for the indifferent Maisie.

Books mentioned in The Light That Failed (2)

• The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson: “I was reading it to Maisie the other day from The City of Dreadful Night.”
• The Night-Piece, to Julia by Robert Herrick: “But it was only Herrick's Nightpiece to Julia that the Nilghai sang”