Download or read book If written by Christopher Benfey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures—including Freud and William James—was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he lamented, “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live in either.” In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative “what if” over Kipling’s American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling’s work.
Download or read book The Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The White Seal written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Ideals Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about a white seal named Kotick who learns how to get along in his Arctic environment during his herd's first migration. For elementary grades.
Download or read book The Jungle Book 1894 Collection of Stories by written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. A principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Other characters include Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear. The book has been adapted many times for film and other media.The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Rudyard Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Naulakha, the home he built in Dummerston, Vermont, in the United States.[1] There is evidence that Kipling wrote the collection of stories for his daughter Josephine, who died from pneumonia in 1899, aged 6; a rare first edition of the book with a handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the National Trust's Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, England, in 2010
Download or read book The Hated Wife written by Adam Nicolson and published by Short Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolson gets to the heart of the Kiplings' dysfunctional marriage. Carrie is seen for the woman she was, not a tyrant intent on controlling her husband, but a bastion of courage in the face of serial family tragedy.
Download or read book Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1994-10-18 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a selection of Kipling's short stories.
Download or read book Rudyard Kipling s Vermont Feud written by Frederic F. Van de Water and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kitty and Mr Kipling written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Rudyard Kipling's ill-fated attempt to settle down in his American wife's small Vermont town gets a worshipful once-over through the eyes of (fictional) young Mary Sadiedubbed "Kitty" by her father after the cat killed by curiosity. It's an appropriate moniker, as Kitty is forever asking questions of her parents and other grownupsa device the author leans on heavily to describe and to explain events that take place, largely, offstage. Kipling's efforts to help out a ne'er-do-well brother-in-law end in criminal charges and ultimately drive the writer back to England. Before he goes, though, he makes a big impression on Kitty, as a sensitive observer with his own bottomless well of curiosity: "Nothing," she writes, "was just ordinary to Mr. Kipling." Occasional ink drawings place dignified characters in peaceful rural settings. Though weighed down by an excess of historical detail (not to mention a substantial afterword and bibliography), the tale does bring this great writer closer to his modern audience of Best Beloveds, without idealizing either the man or his now-offensive politics. (Fiction. 10-12) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Download or read book Rudyard Kipling in Vermont written by Stuart Murray and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the four years writer Rudyard Kipling spent in Vermont and discusses his work on "The Jungle Books," the family feud that forced him to leave the United States, his relationship with his family and friends, and other related topics.
Download or read book Rudyard Kipling s House in Vermont written by Howard Crosby Rice and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kipling and Vermont written by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kipling in Vermont written by Donald Louis Hill and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Day s Work written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Day's Work is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1898. There are no poems included between the different stories in The Day's Work, as there are in many other of Kipling's collections. Contents The book contains 13 short stories, which were mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Four of the stories contained in The Day's Work include anthropomorphic characters. "The Bridge-Builders" "A Walking Delegate" "The Ship that Found Herself" "The Tomb of His Ancestors" "The Devil and the Deep Sea" "William the Conqueror - part I" "William the Conqueror - part II" ."007" "The Maltese Cat" "Bread upon the Waters" "An Error in the Fourth Dimension" "My Sunday at Home" "The Brushwood Boy"
Download or read book Rudyard Kipling s Vermont Feud written by Frederic P. Van de Water and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rudyard Kipling in New England written by Howard Crosby Rice and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rudyard Kipling s Vermont Feud On the Relations of R Kipling and Beatty Balestier Drawings by Bernadine Coster written by Frederic Franklyn VAN DE WATER and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kipling and the Vermont Feud written by Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith Earl of Birkenhead and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
