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Book Rudyard Kipling in Vermont

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.

Book If

    If

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Benfey
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2019-07-09
  • ISBN : 0735221448
  • Pages : 256 pages

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.

Book Captains Courageous

Download or read book Captains Courageous written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an amply illustrated edition of Kipling's 1897 novel.

Book The Day s Work

Download or read book The Day s Work written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes

Download or read book The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes written by Rudyard Kipling and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Literature Prize winner Rudyard Kipling pens this riveting adventure tale. One evening Morrowbie Jukes, an English gentleman, is feeling a bit feverish and the barking of the dogs outside his house is upsetting him. So he mounts his horse in order to pursue them. The horse bolts and they eventually fall into a sandy ravine on the edge of a river. He awakens the next morning to find himself in a village of the living dead, where people who appear to have died of, for instance, cholera, but who revived when their bodies were about to be burned, are imprisoned. He quickly learns that it is impossible to climb out because of the sandy slope...

Book Kitty and Mr  Kipling

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.

Book The Naulahka

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rudyard Kipling
  • Publisher : New York : Macmillan
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Naulahka written by Rudyard Kipling and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1892 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Naulahka" is the name Kipling gave to his home in Brattleboro, Vermont, though the Naulahka of the book title refers to a most precious jeweled necklace. It is also a story he wrote with a co-author, Wolcott Balestier, a Brattleboro man, and Kipling's brother-in-law. Balestier died of typhoid shortly after they began the collaboration, so what remains is mostly Kipling.

Book The Jungle Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rudyard Kipling
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Second Jungle Book

Download or read book The Second Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Castrovilli Giuseppe. This book was released on 1897 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the further adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.

Book The Jungle Books

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  • Author : Rudyard Kipling
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2005-05-03
  • ISBN : 1101153954
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book The Jungle Books written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Mowgli, a man-child raised by wolves in the jungle, have captured the imaginations not just of children, but of all readers, for generations.

Book The Jungle Book  1894    Collection of Stories   by

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

Book Kipling s America

Download or read book Kipling s America written by Rudyard Kipling and published by ELT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kipling was just twenty-three years old when he reached San Francisco in May 1889; he immediately began recording the sights and sounds of boom-town America. For four months he toured the United States, publishing accounts of his journey in the Pioneer, a major newspaper in western India. A few years later, when he lived in Vermont, Kipling wrote several syndicated articles published in both England and the U.S. Then in 1899 he revised and abridged the Pioneer versions and published them in From Sea to Sea. The second series of syndicated articles he collected in Letters of Travel (1920). Most of these travel writings are now out of print. In Kipling's America, Professor D. H. Stewart brings all of these articles together and reproduces the original printed versions. Readers are provided with the opportunity to hear again Kipling at his cocky and often opinionated best. From Kipling's perspective, America unleashed the chaotic energy latent in human beings, and he was uncertain whether this energy inevitably would be productive or destructive." "That some of his impressions were one-dimensional is undeniable, but equally undeniable is his gift of language - his access to a ready lexicon often composed of what he termed a "perpetual Pentecost" to describe the "talking in tongues" heard in British Overseas Clubs throughout the Empire. This hodgepodge of European languages (counter-pointed with pidgin English, Chinese, Hindi, American) produced a symphony (or cacophony) of bountiful word play."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Hated Wife

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.

Book Anna Banana

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lenore Blegvad
  • Publisher : Live Oak Media (NY)
  • Release : 1988-10-30
  • ISBN : 9781595192967
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Anna Banana written by Lenore Blegvad and published by Live Oak Media (NY). This book was released on 1988-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Banana's fearlessness inspires a playmate to face his own fears.

Book Rudyard Kipling in Vermont

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.

Book Rudyard Kipling s Vermont Feud

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:

Book Rudyard Kipling s House in Vermont

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: