The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
Selected Stories
$28.32
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2011
Summary
A new collection of Rudyard Kipling’s short stories, selected and edited by Jan Montefiore.
Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly realized world of the ‘Indian’ stories that made his name, through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly-wrought subtleties o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141442358 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141442352 |
| Author: | Rudyard Kipling, Jan Montefiore |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 444g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 129mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Born in Bombay in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was brought to England in 1871. After five unhappy years with a foster family, an experience later reflected in The Light That Failed (1890), he returned to India in 1882 to work as a journalist. While there, he produced a significant body of work, including Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), which brought him literary celebrity upon his return to England in 1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and Just So Stories (1902). Kipling declined the role of Poet Laureate and other honors, but he was the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He died in 1936.
Jan Montefiore
Born in 1948 and educated at Oxford, Jan Montefiore has taught at the University of Kent since 1978, where she is now Professor of 20th Century English Literature. She is the author of Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition, 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007). She lives in Canterbury.
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