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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.

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". His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If- (1910). Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888).

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, 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 Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined.Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). The Complete Stalky & Co., first published 30 years later, includes five stories not published in the original edition. Kipling himself appears as the central character called Beetle and through him shows how school is a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. is a collection of school stories based on Kipling's own experiences at the United Services College. Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Rudyard Kipling, ‘Stalky & Co.’įirst published in 1899, Stalky and Co.