Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

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Kipling is associated with sentimental children’s fiction or tub-thumping racism, but his best fiction captures the horrors of empire, acted out by colonisers and subjects alike. By Andrew Glazzard ...

Posterity, it appears, still can't quite make up its mind about Rudyard Kipling. As Christopher Hitchens reminded us in his essay in the June 2002 Atlantic, "A Man of Permanent Contradictions," few ...

John Kipling went missing in action at the Battle of Loos, in northern France, one hundred years ago, on September 27, 1915. The eighteen-year-old lieutenant was likely the most widely searched-for ...

Letters dating back to 1915 have been discovered which show author Rudyard Kipling appealing for information about his son, who went missing on the Western Front during World War One. The writer and ...

THE volume called Traffics and Discoveries, published in 1904, marks the complete metamorphosis of Kipling. 1 The collection that preceded it, The Day’s Work, though these tendencies had already begun ...

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Two pleading letters Rudyard Kipling wrote during his search for his missing son have been saved for the nation after coming up for auction. Dubai-based businessman Julian Bartlett bought the letters ...