Selected Rudyard Kipling
Deep dive into the rip-roaring collection of fierce and fiery adventure tales in `Selected Rudyard Kipling', the author of `The Jungle Book'.Once we've roamed the jungle in Kipling's much-loved classic, we'll follow fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne as he finds himself in dark and dangerous waters in the North Atlantic in `Captain Courageous'. We'll then encounter the magic of the Magna Carta in `Puck of Pook's Hill'. But beware! Where there is money, there are liars and cheats. And gutsy greed is never far away in `The Man who would be King' when two tycoons attempt to forge their fates. Last but not least, in Rudyard Kipling's most famous novel `Kim', we'll follow the trials and tribulations of an Irish orphan in India who balances both the life of a monk and a mysterious spy. Weaving a rip-roaring collection from a mastermind novelist, `Selected Rudyard Kipling' is the perfect companion for adventure-seeking fans of Idris Elba and Scarlett Johansson in the 2016 blockbuster hit `The Jungle Book.Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. He is most celebrated for the `Jungle Book', the short story `The Man Who Would be King' and poems `Mandalay', `Gunga Din', and `The Gods of the Copybook Headings'.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899) and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language recipient and, at age 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. The literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote that Kipling "is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."
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