Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life

Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work--including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of Empire, and the deaths of two of his children--and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him, but could never ignore him.
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Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life

Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work--including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of Empire, and the deaths of two of his children--and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him, but could never ignore him.
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Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life

Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life

Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life

Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life

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Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work--including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of Empire, and the deaths of two of his children--and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him, but could never ignore him.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333557211
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 06/18/2003
Series: Literary Lives S
Edition description: 2003
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author


Phillip Mallett Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews.

Table of Contents


Preface * Childhood and Youth * Seven Years' Hard: Kipling in India * The Conquest of London * Citizens of America * The Song of the English * Kim * In a Hidden Kingdom * Towards Armageddon * The Great War and After * The Last Decade * Bibliography * Index

Preface * Childhood and Youth * Seven Years' Hard: Kipling in India * The Conquest of London * Citizens of America * The Song of the English * Kim * In a Hidden Kingdom * Towards Armageddon * The Great War and After * The Last Decade * Bibliography * Index
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