The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling Fiction Historical

<p><strong>The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Heldar. </strong>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. The pair fall in love. And then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of blindness incurable -- the result of a head wound he took during the war. And as his vision fails the light of everything around him -- his life his hopes his dreams -- fail with it. There are trerrible choies to be made -- between the love of the woman he treasures . . . and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.</p>