RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in 1865. In 1882 Kipling started
work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of
work, stories, sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the
Hills (1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he
returned to England in 1889. His most famous works include The
Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902).
Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil
honours, but he was the first English writer to be awarded the
Nobel Prize, in 1907. He died in 1936.
JAN MONTEFIOIRE is Professor of 20th Century English Literature at
the University of Kent. She is the author of Men and Women Writers
of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and Mind-Selected Essays
1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition, 2004); and
Rudyard Kipling (2007).
HARISH TRIVEDI is Professor of English, University of Delhi. He is
author of Colonial Transactions- English Literature and India
(1993), and has co-edited The Nation across the World- Postcolonial
Literary Representations (2007) and Literature and Nation- Britain
and India 1800-1990 (2000).
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“A work of positive genius, as radiant all over with intellectual
light as the sky of a frosty night with stars.” —The
Atlantic Monthly
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