Rudyard Kipling: A Life
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Book Overview
This absorbing, widely praised biography brings a fresh and sympathetic eye to the career of the prolific writer whose popular Jungle Books and collections of poems like Barracks 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0786708301
ISBN13:9780786708307
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:Da Capo Press
Length:448 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Clearly the best Kipling biography in many years. Mr. Ricketts has a fine touch, especially for Kipling's early years. If his later life wasn't as exotic and interesting, that's Kipling's affair. I think the mainstream reviewers had it right ('Splendid,' said The Atlantic Monthly, 'irresistibly readable,' said The New Yorker). Insightful and engaging.
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