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The light that failed

After returning to London following the war, war artist Dick Helder begins to go blind. Terrible choices must be made between the love of his childhood sweetheart and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.

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  • "Westlake House presents The light that failed"@en
  • "Classic House presents The light that failed"@en

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  • "After returning to London following the war, war artist Dick Helder begins to go blind. Terrible choices must be made between the love of his childhood sweetheart and the love of the men who stood by him at the front."@en
  • ""Published in 1891, this is a story of a lonely child, Dick Helder, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army in battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding verbal descriptions of the desert and desert warfare."--Container."@en
  • "Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, well known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist and re-encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of an incurable blindness, the result of a head injury during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him_his life, hopes, and dreams_fails with it. Terrible choices must be made between the love of a woman and the love of the men who stood by him at the front."
  • "Published in 1891, this is a story of a lonely child, Dick Helder, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army in battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding verbal descriptions of the desert and desert warfare."@en
  • "Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, well known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist and re-encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of an incurable blindness, the result of a head injury during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, hopes, and dreams--fails with it. Terrible choices must be made between the love of a woman and the love of the men who stood by him at the front."@en
  • "Dick Heldar, a painter, perfects his art in the Sudan war. Years later he is blinded and fights to regain his love for Maisie, unaware his greatest work has been destroyed."
  • "Dramatic highlights from one of Rudyard KiplingsÌ“ major works."@en

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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Adventure stories"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
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  • "The light that failed"@en
  • "The light that failed"
  • "The Light that failed"@en

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