| Description |
x, 223 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Literary lives |
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Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
Childhood and Youth -- Seven Years' Hard: Kipling in India -- The Conquest of London -- Citizens of America -- The Song of the English -- Kim -- In a Hidden Kingdom -- Towards Armageddon -- The Great War and After -- The Last Decade |
| Summary |
"Rudyard Kipling made his name as the poet and story-teller of the British in India, but his stories (over 300) include tales for children, studies of love and hate, of healing and revenge, of the Sussex countryside and of the supernatural. His poems, including If and the Barrack-Room Ballads, are among the best-known and most quoted in the language. He was a newspaperman by training and instinct, and a gifted travel writer. He was too an intensely political man: a friend of Cecil Rhodes, one of the fiercest opponents of Irish Home Rule, a speechwriter for King George V, and cousin to Stanley Baldwin. This book traces Kipling's difficult private life, his dealings with the literary and political world of his time, the rise and fall of his reputation, and his right to be considered the greatest English writer of the short story."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-215) and index |
| Subject |
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Political and social views.
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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British -- India -- History.
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Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2003048286 |
| ISBN |
0333557212 paperback |
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0333557204 |
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9780333557204 |
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