Rudyard Kipling
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Photograph from 1914
Born Joseph Rudyard Kipling
30 December 1865(1865-12-30)
Bombay, British India
Died 18 January 1936(1936-01-18) (aged 70)
Middlesex Hospital, London, England
Occupation Short story writer, novelist, poet, journalist
Nationality British
Genres Short story, novel, children 's literature, poetry, travel literature, science fiction
Notable work(s) The Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Kim
If—
Gunga Din
Notable award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature
1907
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Influenced[show]Robert A. Heinlein, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)[1] was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.[2] Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story";[3] his children 's books are enduring classics of children 's literature; and his best works are said to exhibit "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".[4][5]
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[3] The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as
"Kipling" redirects here. For other uses, see Kipling (disambiguation).
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Photograph from 1914
Born Joseph Rudyard Kipling
30 December 1865(1865-12-30)
Bombay, British India
Died 18 January 1936(1936-01-18) (aged 70)
Middlesex Hospital, London, England
Occupation Short story writer, novelist, poet, journalist
Nationality British
Genres Short story, novel, children 's literature, poetry, travel literature, science fiction
Notable work(s) The Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Kim
If—
Gunga Din
Notable award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature
1907
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Influenced[show]Robert A. Heinlein, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)[1] was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.[2] Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story";[3] his children 's books are enduring classics of children 's literature; and his best works are said to exhibit "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".[4][5]
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[3] The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as
References: .^ The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p.12 2.^ Pinney, Thomas (September 2004) 3.^ a b c d e Rutherford, Andrew (1987). General Preface to the Editions of Rudyard Kipling, in "Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies", by Rudyard Kipling. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-282575-5 4.^ a b c d e Rutherford, Andrew (1987) 7.^ Birkenhead, Lord. 1978. Rudyard Kipling, Appendix B, “Honours and Awards”. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London; Random House Inc., New York. 8.^ Lewis, Lisa. 1995. Introduction to the Oxford World 's Classics edition of "Just So Stories", by Rudyard Kipling. Oxford University Press. pp.xv-xlii. ISBN 0-19-282276-4 9.^ Quigley, Isabel 10.^ Said, Edward. 1993. Culture and Imperialism. London: Chatto & Windus. Page 196. ISBN 0-679-75054-1. 11.^ Sandison, Alan. 1987. Introduction to the Oxford World 's Classics edition of Kim, by Rudyard Kipling. Oxford University Press. pp. xiii–xxx. ISBN 0-19-281674-8. 12.^ Orwell, George (2006-09-30). "Essay on Kipling". http://www.george-orwell.org/Rudyard_Kipling/0.html. Retrieved 2006-09-30. 13.^ Douglas Kerr, University of Hong Kong 14.^ a b c d e Carrington, C.E. (Charles Edmund). 1955. Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work. Macmillan and Company, London and New York. 15.^ Flanders, Judith. 2005. A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin. W.W. Norton and Company, New York. ISBN 0-393-05210-9 16.^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Gilmour, David 17.^ thepotteries.org (2002-01-13). "did you know ....". The potteries.org. http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/002.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-02. 18.^ Sir J.J 19.^ "To the City of Bombay", dedication to Seven Seas, by Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan and Company, 1894. 22.^ a b c d Carpenter, Humphrey and Mari Prichard. 1984. Oxford Companion to Children 's Literature. pp. 296–297. 24.^ Kipling, Rudyard (1956) Kipling: a selection of his stories and poems, Volume 2 pp.349 Doubleday, 1956 25.^ Robert D 26.^ Kipling, Rudyard (1996) Writings on Writing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44527-2. see p. 36 and p. 173 27.^ Mallet, Phillip 28.^ a b Ricketts, Harry. 1999. Rudyard Kipling: A life. Carroll and Graf Publishers Inc., New York. ISBN 0-7867-0711-9. 29.^ Kipling, Rudyard. 1920. Letters of Travel (1892–1920). Macmillan and Company. 30.^ Nicholson, Adam. 2001. Carrie Kipling 1862-1939 : The Hated Wife. Faber & Faber, London. ISBN 0-571-20835-5 31.^ a b Pinney, Thomas (editor) 32.^ Kipling, Rudyard. 1899. The White Man 's Burden. Published simultaneously in The Times, London, and McClure 's Magazine (U.S.) 12 February 1899. 33.^ Snodgrass, Chris. 2002. A Companion to Victorian Poetry. Blackwell, Oxford. 34.^ Kipling, Rudyard. 1897. Recessional. Published in The Times, London, July 1897. 35.^ Carrington, C. E., (1955) The life of Rudyard Kipling, Doubleday & Co., Garden City, N.Y., p. 236. 38.^ mt (2005-11-17). "Link to National Trust Site for Bateman House". Nationaltrust.org.uk. http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-batemans. Retrieved 2010-06-23. 39.^ The Fringes of the Fleet, Macmillan & Co 40.^ Bennett, Arnold (1917). Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911. London: Chatto & Windus. 41.^ Short Stories from the Strand, The Folio Society, 1992. 47.^ Kipling, Rudyard. The Irish Guards in the Great War. 2 vols. (London, 1923) 48.^ "The Iron Ring" 53.^ WORLD VIEW: Is Afghanistan turning into another Vietnam?, Johnathan Power, The Citizen, December 31, 2010 54.^ Is America waxing or waning?, Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic, December 12, 2010 57.^ 'The Life of Kingsley Amis ', Zachary Leader, Vintage, 2007 pp.704-705 58.^ Khushwant Singh, Review of The Book of Prayer by Renuka Narayanan, 2001 59.^ "Kipling 's India home to become museum". BBC News. 2007-11-27. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7095922.stm. Retrieved 2008-08-09. 60.^ Schliemann, H, Troy and its remains, London: Murray, 1875, pp 61.^ Sarah Boxer. "One of the world 's great symbols strives for a comeback". The New York Times, July 29, 2000. 62.^ Rudyard Kipling, War Stories and Poems (Oxford Paperbacks, 1999), pp. xxiv-xxv. Rudyard Kipling at Project Gutenberg, by John Palmer, 1915 biography The Rudyard Kipling Collection maintained by Marlboro College.