Songs from Books
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Music
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Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Music
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Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Boy Scouts
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A collection of eleven short stories and seven poems by this author who is the boys scouts commissioner at the time.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Castrovilli Giuseppe
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Adventure stories, English
ISBN :
Presents the further adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140390810
This novel examines war and its psychological effect on the individual soldier, by following the exploits of a group of soldiers during the American Civil War.
Author : Christopher Benfey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0735221448
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.
Author : Andrew Lycett
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 1011 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1474602991
Paragon of English virtues or racist imperialist? Andrew Lycett (acclaimed biographer of Ian Fleming) has returned to primary sources to tell the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became Britain's most famous and highest earning author. Among the many new sources, Lycett has discovered previously unpublished letters that illuminate Kipling's crucial years in India, his first girlfriend (the model for Mrs Hauksbee of Plain Tales from the Hills), his parents' decision to send him back to England to boarding school; and in his adult life his use of opium, his frustrating times in London and the brief peace he found in America before the devastating loss of both his young daughter and, in the First World War, his son. Lycett also uncovers the extraordinary story of Kipling's great love for Flo Garrard, daughter of the crown jeweller, and unravels the complicated yet enthralling saga of the American family the Balestiers, and of Carrie Balestier who became Kipling's wife. This biography is full of new material on Kipling's financial dealings with Lord Beaverbrook, his friendships with T.E. Lawrence, the painter Edward Burne-Jones and the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (who was his cousin).
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1528790715
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).
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Animals
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Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Canadian Branch, Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1928
Category : English essays
ISBN :
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307804453
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.