This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues and more..

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet. In 1917 he was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kipling was born in Bombay, British India. Many of his works have an Indian flavor and setting. His best known are The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), and Just So Stories (1902). Verses 1889-1896 is volume 11 in the collected works of more..

This complete collection of Kipling's verse will delight enthusiastic and devoted readers of Kipling everywhere. The only trade edition of complete poems by Kipling. more..

Arranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kipling's time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short stories explore the themes of isolation and abandonment and the effects of the Indian caste system on society. Along with the title piece, the volume includes "Gemini," "A Wayside Comedy," "The Hill of Illusion," "Only a Subaltern," "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," "Black more..

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: Doubleday, Page more..

What makes a boy into a man?

Courage.

Confidence.

Patience.

Integrity...

For more than one hundred years, this classic poems has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves.

In pictures and words, here's what every boy needs to know most. more..

Juxtaposing stories and poems, introducing futuristic sky-travellers, Sussex peasants and would-be-Bloomsbury poseurs, this volume displays Kipling as a connoisseur of variety of life and art. more..

The initial story of this collection, "The Captive", demonstrates the imaginative nature of Kipling's engagement with the political and military questions raised by the Boer War in the character of an American inventor and his passionate commitment to a gun. more..

Because of his "'satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks. more..

This unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems provides critical comment on the ineptitude of the British in the Boer War. Including such stories as "Barrack-Room Ballads," this work provides tales of courage and adventure, as well as shameful episodes of retreat and failure. more..