Because he believed, and wrote, that Americans were ignorant provincials, his political views were not appreciated in the states. Kipling is revered for his adult and children’s stories and poems, but much of his life and writing is largely unknown in the United States. A restless wanderer, he ultimately settled in Sussex, only to have his world tumble into ruins with the death of his son in World War I. a number of times, eventually building a house in Vermont. In 1888 he published these short stories: ‘Soldiers Three,’ ‘The Story of the Gadsbys,’ ‘In Black and White,’ ‘Under the Deodars,’ ‘The Phantom Rickshaw’ and ‘Wee Willie Winkie.’ ‘ The Light That Failed‘ and ‘The City of Dreadful Night’ were written by him in 1890. Born in India in 1865 to an upper class military family, he spent his early years in Britain and India and achieved his initial success as a reporter in India. Rudyard Kipling 1865 1936 was not yet 25 when he burst onto the literary scene in London, where his stories of Anglo Indian life made him an instant celebrity. Joseph Rudyard Kipling Decem– Januwas an English author and poet, born in Bombay, India, and best known for his works The Jungle Book 1894, The Second Jungle Book 1895, Just So Stories 1902, Kotick, The White Seal seeking for his people a haven where they would be safe from hunters, has been considered a metaphor for Zionism, then in its beginning. The most famous of the other stories are probably ‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’, the story of a heroic mongoose, and ‘Toomai of the Elephants’, the tale of a young elephant-handler. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned ‘man cub’ Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or ‘heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle.’ Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. The tales in the book and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. These books were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. ![]() The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard’s father, John Lockwood Kipling. All of the stories were published in magazines in 1893-4. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years. Kipling was born in India and spent the first 6 years of his childhood there. ![]() The Jungle Book 1894 is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. Among other honours, he was offered the British Poet Laureateship and a knighthood, both of which he refused. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and he remains today its youngest ever recipient. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 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 work speaks to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Among his short stories are The Man Who Would Be King 1888 and the collections Life’s Handicap 1891, The Day’s Work 1898, and Plain Tales from the Hills 1888. Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865 1936 was a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children’s books, including The Jungle Book 1894, The Second Jungle Book 1895, Just So Stories 1902, and his novel, Kim 1901. The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book (2018).Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages (2005).The Elephant, The Hare And The Black Cobra (2003).The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales (2000).Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1999). ![]()
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