Kipling

by Adams, Jad

• ISBN13: 9781904950196
• ISBN10: 1904950191
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Haus Pub

Summary

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): short storywriter, author and poet, butlso imperialist, racist, misogynist, and sexually confused? Kipling's lifend experiences spanned exhilaration (growing up in India during the Raj) andataclysm (losing his only son in World War I). He has been vilified as anmperialist and racist; his work considered 'politically incorrect'. Yet, hes one of the few, if not only, writers of the time to describe his world inxacting, caring detail - to tell us of 'the little man', whether privateoldier, sailor or a poor native boy. Having lived a charmed early childhoodn India and experienced a rather more horrid existence in foster homes andoarding schools as a boy, Kipling's early years equipped him with anmagination that allowed him to create such ever popular children's classicss The Jungle Book and Just So Stories for Children. Perhaps because hisoetry was more straightforward and easily understood in a single reading,ritics have not bothered to analyse it for hidden meaning and warning,ooking for the irony behind the simple language he used.;If he was truly a

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
A Poor White	p. 7
The Family Square	p. 25
Special Correspondent	p. 49
A Lion in London	p. 61
A Home in America	p. 85
Triumph and Disaster	p. 115
No End of a Lesson	p. 129
Ghosts Walk	p. 147
My Boy Jack	p. 165
Angry Last Years	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 191
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