NMLP P-035164 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Light That Failed

Rudyard Kipling · United States Book Co., successor to John W. Lovell Co. (New York) · 1890

Macmillan's first English edition followed in March 1891 with a prefatory note stating the text was 'as it was originally conceived by the Writer,' restoring the full fifteen chapters, including the tragic ending in the newly added chapters XIV-XV that had been cut from the Lippincott/Lovell text

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035164 for "The Light That Failed" by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035164, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).