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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, to British parents on December 30, 1865. In 1871 Rudyard and his sister, Trix, aged three, were left to be cared for by a couple in Southsea, England. Five years passed before he saw his parents again. His sense of desertion and despair were later expressed in his story "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" (1888), in his novel The Light That Failed (1890), and in his autobiography, Something of Myself (1937). As late as 1935, Kipling still spoke bitterly of the "House of Desolation" at Southsea: "I should like to burn it down and plough the place with salt." Kipling and his wife settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), and most of Captains Courageous (1897). By this time Kipling's popularity and financial success were enormous. In 1899 the Kiplings settled in Sussex, England, where he wrote some of his best books: Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906). In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. By the time he died, on January 18, 1936, critical opinion was deeply divided about his writings, but his books continue to be read by thousands.
Mowgli (Movie Tie-In)
Captains Courageous
The Jungle Books
The Jungle Books
The Jungle Book
Kim
Just So Stories
The Man Who Would Be King
Just So Stories
Just So Stories
The Jungle Book
The Spy's Bedside Book
Just So Stories
Tales Before Narnia
Kipling: Poems
Captains Courageous
Kim
Barrack-Room Ballads
The Wish House and Other Stories
Captains Courageous
Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Books
The Portable Kipling

Books

Mowgli (Movie Tie-In)
Captains Courageous
The Jungle Books
The Jungle Books
The Jungle Book
Kim
Just So Stories
The Man Who Would Be King
Just So Stories
Just So Stories
The Jungle Book
The Spy's Bedside Book
Just So Stories
Tales Before Narnia
Kipling: Poems
Captains Courageous
Kim
Barrack-Room Ballads
The Wish House and Other Stories
Captains Courageous
Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Books
The Portable Kipling

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