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Rudyard Kipling [Public Domain] via Wikimedia Commons Rudyard Kipling was born in India, 'the jewel in the Crown of the British Empire', in 1865. His life straddles the turn of the twentieth-century almost exactly (he died in 1936), a period that also saw the British Empire reach its height and begin its decline -- Indian independence came little more than a decade after Kipling's death in 1947. The contrasting locations of his birth (the first six years of his life were spent in the multicultural and vibrantly bustling city of Bombay) and death (the rolling green, and quintessentially 'British', countryside of Sussex) epitomize the paradoxical nature of Kipling, the literary man. Where so many of his writings set in India exhibit a zest and enthusiasm for Eastern culture, landscape, and peoples, an equally large number of his poems are filled with racism, pro-imperial jingoism, and an undying belief in the white man's right to global rule. Just as his life-span straddled the century, Kipling straddled geographical boundaries and ideological positions, and these inconsistencies come through most prominently, and productively, in his literature. Kipling...
Read the essay: Rudyard Kipling by Dominic Davies
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1 Kipling, the Elton John of his age?

Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late...

Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies
2 Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling

Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of...

Julian Thompson
# Essay Title Description Contributor
1 Colonial Writers - Introduction

The title of the 'Post/Colonial' section of the Great Writers Inspire website is intended to...

Dominic Davies
2 Rudyard Kipling
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Dominic Davies
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1 A Book of Words

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2 Captains Courageous : a story of the Grand Banks

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3 Debits and Credits

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4 Souvenirs of France

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5 The Phantom Rickshaw; and other tales

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6 The Seven Seas

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7 Traffics and Discoveries

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8 The Muse Among the Motors

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9 Puck of Pook's Hill

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10 In an Opium Factory

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11 Something of Myself, For My Friends Known and Unknown

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12 From Sea to Sea

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13 Just So Stories for Little Children

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14 Departmental Ditties and other verses

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15 Kim

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16 The Day's Work

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17 The Second Jungle Book

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18 Wee Willie Winkie ; and other child stories

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19 The Naulahka: A Story of West and East

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20 Many Inventions

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21 American Notes

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22 A Diversity of Creatures

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23 Stalky & Co

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24 The Smith Administration

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25 Destroyers at Jutland

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26 The Light That Failed

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27 The Giridih Coal-Fields

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28 Under the Deodars

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29 France at War

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30 Rewards and Fairies

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31 Thy Servant, A Dog

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32 The Jungle Book

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33 Barrack-Room Ballads

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34 Among the Railway Folk

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35 Life's Handicap

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36 The Fringes of the Fleet

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37 The Years Between

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38 Tales of the Trade

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39 Letters of Marque

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40 City of Dreadful Night

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41 The Five Nations

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42 Limits and Renewals

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43 Actions and Reactions

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44 The Eyes of Asia

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45 Plain Tales from the Hills

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46 Soldiers Three

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47 The White Man’s Burden

Poem from 'The Five Nations'

Ruyard Kipling
48 A Kipling Anthology of Prose

Publisher info: Macmillan & Co Ltd: London, 1922

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49 A Kipling Anthology of Verse

Publisher info: Paris: Nelson, 1925

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1 Illustrated Book Cover for 'The Jungle Book'

The book poster for "The Jungle Book," by writer Rudyard Kipling, published by The Century...

2 Photograph of Rudyard Kipling