{"product_id":"book-ccjf","title":"Mary Postgate","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Postgate\u003c\/i\u003e is a horrifying story, and like much of Kipling’s work it can be interpreted in different ways. It was written as propaganda in 1915 during World War I against the background of German atrocities and massacres in France, and just after German aircraft had engaged in bombing raids on English towns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Postgate\u003c\/i\u003e was intended to inspire English readers with just such cold-blooded courage and ruthlessness as Mary herself displays. It is also, however, a portrait of a woman who finds release from societal, psychological, and sexual pressures in the context of war: the deaths of Wynn and little Edna Gerrit are not so much reasons as excuses for the behavior Mary indulges in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKipling provides us with detailed motivation of Mary’s actions, so we understand why she behaves as she does: the story is full of ominous warning signs which prepare us for the dreadful climax. And the climax becomes more terrifying, more ghastly, the more carefully we listen to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Door Audiobooks","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49382622626096,"sku":"BDccjf","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/225676-ccjf-Square.jpg?v=1735051010","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ccjf","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}