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Carrington, C[Harles] E. The Life of Rudyard Kipling.
Garden City Doubleday & Co. 1955 First Edition Hardcover Fair
Xxiv, 433 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings, some shelf wear, text very good. From the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: "Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865- 1936) Indian-born British novelist, short-story writer, and poet. The son of a museum curator, he was reared in England but returned to India as a journalist. He soon became famous for volumes of stories, beginning with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888; including "The Man Who Would Be King") , and later for the poetry collection Barrack-Room Ballads (1892; including "Gunga Din" and "Mandalay"). His poems, often strongly rhythmic, are frequently narrative ballads. During a residence in the U. S. , he published a novel, The Light That Failed (1890) ; the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895) , stories of the wild boy Mowgli in the Indian jungle that have become children's classics; the adventure story Captains Courageous (1897) ; and Kim (1901) , one of the great novels of India. He wrote six other volumes of short stories and several other verse collections. His children's books include the famous Just So Stories (1902) and the fairy-tale collection Puck of Pook's Hill (1906). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His extraordinary popularity in his own time declined as his reputation suffered after World War I because of his widespread image as a jingoistic imperialist. " SR3532; Ex-Library
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