Kipling : a selection of his stories and poems

Title:

Author:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

ISBN:

9780385042451

Uniform Title:

Works. Selections. 1956

Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, 1956.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents:

v.1. Kim -- The jungle book ( Mowgli's brothers ; Hunting-song of the Seeonee Pack ; Kaa's hunting ; Road-song of the Bandar-Log ; How fear came ; The law of the jungle ; "Tiger! Tiger!" ; Mowgli's song ; Letting in the jungle ; Mowgli's song against people ; The king's ankus ; The song of the little hunter ; Red dog ; Chil's song ; The spring running ; The outsong ) -- Just so stories ( How the whale got his throat ; How the camel got his hump ; How the rhinoceros got his skin ; How the leopard got his spots ; The sing-song of old man kangaroo ; The beginning of the armadillos ; The crab that played with the sea ; The elephant's child ; The cat that walked by himself ; The butterfly that stamped) -- Puck of Pook's hill ( Puck's song ; Weland's sword ; A tree song ; Young men at the manor ; Sir Richard's song ; Harp song of the Dane women ; The knights of the joyous venture ; Thorkild's song ; Old men at Pevensey ; The runes on Weland's sword ; A centurion of the Thirtieth ; A British-Roman song ; On the great wall ; A song to Mithras ; The winged hats ; A Pict song ; Hal o' the draft ; A smuggler's song ; The bee boy's song ; "Dymchurch Flit" ; A three-part song ; Song of the fifth river ; The treasure and the law ; The children's song ).

v.2. Stories. "The finest story in the world" -- A matter of fact -- Beyond the pale -- A bank fraud -- The daughter of the regiment -- The rout of the white hussars -- At the pit's mouth -- A second rate woman -- The phantom 'Rickshaw -- My own true ghost story -- The strange ride of morrowbie Jukes -- The man who would be king -- The wreck of the Visigoth -- Wee Willie Winkie -- "They" -- The bull that thought -- An habitation enforced -- The house surgeon -- Without benefit of clergy -- The mark of the beast -- The return of Imray -- Namgay Doola -- Moti Cuj -- The miracle of Purun Bhagat -- The incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney -- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi -- Darzee's chant -- Something of myself -- Poems -- The betrothed -- To Thomas Atkins -- Danny Dever -- "Fuzzy Wuzzy" -- Gunga Din -- The widow at Windsor -- Mandalay -- The ballad of east and west -- A carol -- The new knighthood -- The thousandth man -- The puzzler -- "A servant when he reigneth" -- If -- The power of the dog -- Mother of mine -- Dane Geld -- The liner she's a lady -- When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre -- Back to the army again -- The ladies -- Bill 'Awkins -- "Mary, pity women!" -- The white man's burden -- Chant-Pagan -- Boots -- The married man -- Recessional -- The sons of Martha -- The virginity -- The female of the species -- Study of an elevation, in India ink -- Delilah -- My rival -- L'Envoi -- The sea and the hills -- The "Mary Gloster" -- The merchantmen -- The song of Diego Valdez -- The Gipsy trail -- The native-Born -- The lost legion -- The last of the light brigade -- Sussex -- The vampire -- When earth's last picture is painted -- The ballad of the king's mercy -- The truce of the bear -- Hymn before action -- The conundrum of the workshops -- Mary's son -- The palace -- Tommy -- The widow's party -- The 'eathen -- The ballad of Boh Da Thone -- The gods of the copybook headings -- Four-feet.

Abstract:

Collection of short stories & poems written by Rudyard Kipling in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Subject Term:

Short stories.

English prose literature.

English poetry.

Short stories

English prose literature

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Added Corporate Author:

Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)

Other Format:

Online version: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Selections. 1956. Kipling. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday c1956 (OCoLC)565924211

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Summary

Author Notes

Kipling, who as a novelist dramatized the ambivalence of the British colonial experience, was born of English parents in Bombay and as a child knew Hindustani better than English. He spent an unhappy period of exile from his parents (and the Indian heat) with a harsh aunt in England, followed by the public schooling that inspired his "Stalky" stories. He returned to India at 18 to work on the staff of the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette and rapidly became a prolific writer. His mildly satirical work won him a reputation in England, and he returned there in 1889. Shortly after, his first novel, The Light That Failed (1890) was published, but it was not altogether successful.

In the early 1890s, Kipling met and married Caroline Balestier and moved with her to her family's estate in Brattleboro, Vermont. While there he wrote Many Inventions (1893), The Jungle Book (1894-95), and Captains Courageous (1897). He became dissatisfied with life in America, however, and moved back to England, returning to America only when his daughter died of pneumonia. Kipling never again returned to the United States, despite his great popularity there.

Short stories form the greater portion of Kipling's work and are of several distinct types. Some of his best are stories of the supernatural, the eerie and unearthly, such as "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Brushwood Boy," and "They." His tales of gruesome horror include "The Mark of the Beast" and "The Return of Imray." "William the Conqueror" and "The Head of the District" are among his political tales of English rule in India. The "Soldiers Three" group deals with Kipling's three musketeers: an Irishman, a Cockney, and a Yorkshireman. The Anglo-Indian Tales, of social life in Simla, make up the larger part of his first four books.

Kipling wrote equally well for children and adults. His best-known children's books are Just So Stories (1902), The Jungle Books (1894-95), and Kim (1901). His short stories, although their understanding of the Indian is often moving, became minor hymns to the glory of Queen Victoria's empire and the civil servants and soldiers who staffed her outposts. Kim, an Irish boy in India who becomes the companion of a Tibetan lama, at length joins the British Secret Service, without, says Wilson, any sense of the betrayal of his friend this actually meant. Nevertheless, Kipling has left a vivid panorama of the India of his day.

In 1907, Kipling became England's first Nobel Prize winner in literature and the only nineteenth-century English poet to win the Prize. He won not only on the basis of his short stories, which more closely mirror the ambiguities of the declining Edwardian world than has commonly been recognized, but also on the basis of his tremendous ability as a popular poet. His reputation was first made with Barrack Room Ballads (1892), and in "Recessional" he captured a side of Queen Victoria's final jubilee that no one else dared to address.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Summary:

Collection of short stories & poems written by Rudyard Kipling in the late 1800's and early 1900's.