The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling

by Rudyard Kipling

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This book contains the Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling

Actions and Reactions 1909
American Notes 1891
Barrack-Room Ballads 1892
The Bridge-Builders 1889
"Captains Courageous" 1896
The Day's Work - Part I 1898
Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads 1886
A Diversity of Creatures 1917
The Eyes of Asia 1917
France At War 1917
Indian Tales 1898
The Jungle Book 1894
Just So Stories 1902
Kim 1902
The Kipling Reader 1900
Letters of Travel (1892-1913) 1899
Life's Handicap 1891
The Light That Failed 1891
The Man Who Would Be King 1888
The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories 1888
Plain Tales from the Hills 1888
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906
Rewards and Fairies 1910
Sea Warfare 1916
The Second Jungle Book 1895
The Seven Seas 1896
Soldiers Three 1888
Soldiers Three [Stories] Part II 1888
Soldier Stories 1888
Songs from Books 1912
Stalky & Co. 1899
The Story of the Gadsby 1888
Traffics and Discoveries 1904
Under the Deodars 1888
Verses 1889-1896
With The Night Mail 1909
The Years Between 1919

Genres: Classics, Poetry, Collections

10226 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1941

About the author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."

Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. On the night of 12 January 1936, Kipling suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery, but died less than a week later on 18 January 1936 at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Kipling's death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."