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The Light That Failed

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The 1916 film.

The Light That Failed (The Licht That Dwined) is a novelle bi Rudyard Kipling, an wis first furthset in 1890. Maist o the beuk is set in Lunnon, yett monie o the important happenins cam in the Sudan, or Indiae. The beuk follaes the life o a chiel cried Dick Herald; a penter that gangs blin. The storie haed twa sindry feenishes: a couthie ane that wis furthset in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; an a dreich ane that wis furthset in beuk furm a puckle month efter.