Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years.
RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in 1865. In 1871 he was brought
home from India and spent five unhappy years with a foster family
in Southsea, an experience he later drew on in The Light That
Failed (1890). In 1882 Kipling started work as a journalist in
India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches
and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) - which made
him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in
1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim
(1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling refused to accept
the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the
first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907. He
died in 1936.
JAN MONTEFIOIRE was born in 1948 and educated at Oxford. Since 1978
she has taught at the University of Kent, where she is now
Professor of 20th Century English Literature. She is the author of
Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and
Mind-Selected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd
edition, 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007). She lives in
Canterbury.
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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