Rudyard Kipling : a life
Ricketts, Harry1999
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This absorbing biography of the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature brings a fresh and sympathetic eye to the career of the prolific writer whose popular 'Jungle Books' and collections of poems like 'Barrack Room Ballads' as well as the masterly novel 'Kim' propelled him to the pinnacle of literary success before he was forty. With illuminative reinterpretations of his work, it also follows Kipling through the next three decades that took this complex, troubled, and brilliant man to tragic personal disappointments and galling disrepute among the lions of literary fashion. In all, it brings vibrantly to life the diverse worlds of imperialist India and Victorian London that both inspired and betrayed Kipling's genius.
Main title:
Rudyard Kipling : a life / Harry Ricketts.
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Imprint:
New York : Carroll & Graf, 1999.
Collation:
xii, 434 p. ; plates ; 23.5 cm.
Notes:
Notes.Includes index.
ISBN:
0786708301
Language:
English
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