If

If
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780735221444
ISBN-13 : 0735221448
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis If by : Christopher Benfey

A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures—including Freud and William James—was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he lamented, “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live in either.” In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative “what if” over Kipling’s American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling’s work.

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015015357935
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis The Jungle Book by : Rudyard Kipling

Mulvaney Stories

Mulvaney Stories
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101068153491
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Mulvaney Stories by : Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 145
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781438116303
ISBN-13 : 1438116306
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Rudyard Kipling by : Harold Bloom

Examination of Kipling's short stories include "Lispeth," "Mrs. Bathurst," "The Church That Was at Antioch," and "Without Benefit of Clergy."

Stories and Poems

Stories and Poems
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 753
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ISBN-10 : 9780198723431
ISBN-13 : 0198723431
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Stories and Poems by : Rudyard Kipling

"These stories and poems cover the full range of Kipling's career from the youthful volumes that brought him fame as the chronicler of British India, to the bittersweet fruits of age and bereavement in the aftermath of the First World War" --back cover.

The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling

The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling
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Publisher : Citadel Press
Total Pages : 178
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0806515082
ISBN-13 : 9780806515083
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling by : Rudyard Kipling

Ten stories, each preceded by background information, by a time-honored storyteller and a pioneer of the science fiction genre explore time travel, sentient machines, alternative history, and other perennial science fiction themes. Original.

Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy

Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 912
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ISBN-10 : 9781605986647
ISBN-13 : 160598664X
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy by : Rudyard Kipling

From ghost stories to psychological suspense, the complete horror and dark fantasy stories of Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered one of England's greatest writers, but was born in Bombay. He was educated in England, but returned to India in 1882, where he began writing fantasy and supernatural stories set in his native continent: "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes," and his most famous horror story, "The Mark of the Beast" (1890). This masterwork collection, edited by Stephen Jones (Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed anthologist) for the first time collects all of Kipling's fantastic fiction, ranging from traditional ghostly tales to psychological horror.

Kipling: Poems

Kipling: Poems
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Publisher : Everyman's Library
Total Pages : 258
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307804457
ISBN-13 : 0307804453
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Kipling: Poems by : Rudyard Kipling

Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and The Jungle Book, Kipling was a prolific poet, composing verse in every classical form from the epigram to the ode. Kipling’s most distinctive gift was for ballads and narrative poems in which he drew vivid characters in universal situations, articulating profound truths in plain language. Yet he was also a subtle, affecting anatomist of the human heart, and his deep feeling for the natural world was exquisitely expressed in his verse. He was shattered by World War I, in which he lost his only son, and his work darkened in later years but never lost its extraordinary vitality. All of these aspects of Kipling’s poetry are represented in this selection, which ranges from such well-known compositions as “Mandalay” and “If” to the less-familiar, emotionally powerful, and personal epigrams he wrote in response to the war.

Kipling

Kipling
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Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : LCCN:56006647
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Kipling by : Rudyard Kipling

The Day's Work

The Day's Work
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015031243093
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Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Day's Work by : Rudyard Kipling

First published in Great Britain by Macmillan 1898.