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Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( 30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
He got the Nobel Prize in Literature - 1907
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.
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Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Story of the Gadsbys (Completed)
The Story of the Gadsbys is a story by Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published as no. 2 of the Indian Railway Library in 1888. The Story of the Gadsbys is written in dramatic form, consisting of eight short sc...
Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Completed)
The book is arranged with a story in each chapter. Each story is followed by a poem that serves as an epigram. Many names in the story are Russian, as the Pribilof Islands had been bought (with Alaska) by the Unite...
The Jungle Book (Completed)
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. A principal character is the boy or &qu...