Showcases the early works of the celebrated British author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He is chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If-" (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works are said to exhibit "a versatile and luminous narrative gift." In this book: The Jungle Book The Second Jungle Book Just So Stories A Fleet in Being, Notes of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron Kim The Man Who Would Be King Indian Tales Captains Courageous

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer most famous for his stories set in and related to colonial India. He innovated the art of short story writing and was one of the most popular writers in the U.K. during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A brand new collection of Kipling's best poetry, including “Gunga Din”, “If—“, “Recessional”, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”, “The White Man's Burden”, “Mesopotamia”, “The Female of the Species”, “The Ballad of East and West”, “Epitaphs of the War”, “The Way Through the Woods”, “Mother O' Mine”, and many more. A fantastic collection not to be missed by poetry lovers and fans of Kipling's seminal work. Other notable works by this author include: “The Jungle Book” (1894), “Kim” (1901), and “The Man Who Would be King” (1888).

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent figure at times violently opposed to the dominant political and literary tendencies of his age. Arranged in chronological order, this diverse selection of his poetry shows the development of Kipling's talent, his deepening maturity and the growing sombreness of his poetic vision. Ranging from early, exhilarating celebrations of British expansion overseas, including 'Mandalay' and 'Gunga Din', to the dignified and inspirational 'If -' and the later, deeply moving 'Epitaphs of the War' - inspired by the death of Kipling's only son - it clearly illustrates the scope and originality of his work. It also offers a compelling insight into the Empire both at its peak and during its decline in the early years of the twentieth century.

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.

Contains a selection of Kipling's short stories.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest works by Rudyard Kipling:_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ The Light That Failed_x000D_ Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks_x000D_ Kim_x000D_ The Naulahka: A Story of West and East_x000D_ Stalky and Co._x000D_ Short Story Collections:_x000D_ The City of Dreadful Night_x000D_ Plain Tales from the Hills_x000D_ Soldier's Three (The Story of the Gadsbys)_x000D_ Soldier's Three - Part II_x000D_ The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories_x000D_ Under the Deodars_x000D_ Wee Willie Winkie_x000D_ Life's Handicap_x000D_ Many Inventions_x000D_ The Jungle Book_x000D_ The Second Jungle Book_x000D_ The Day's Work_x000D_ Just So Stories_x000D_ Traffics and Discoveries_x000D_ Puck of Pook's Hill_x000D_ Actions and Reactions_x000D_ Abaft the Funnel_x000D_ Rewards and Fairies_x000D_ The Eyes of Asia_x000D_ A Diversity of Creatures_x000D_ Poetry Collections:_x000D_ Departmental Ditties_x000D_ Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads_x000D_ The Seven Seas_x000D_ An Almanac of Twelve Sports_x000D_ The Five Nations_x000D_ Songs from Books_x000D_ The Years Between_x000D_ How Shakespeare Came to Write the 'Tempest'_x000D_ Military Collections:_x000D_ A Fleet in Being_x000D_ France at War_x000D_ The New Army in Training_x000D_ Sea Warfare_x000D_ The War in the Mountains_x000D_ The Graves of the Fallen_x000D_ Travel Collections_x000D_ American Notes_x000D_ From Sea to Sea_x000D_ Letters of Travel: 1892 - 1913_x000D_ Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".