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Overview
Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work—including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of Empire, and the deaths of two of his children—and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him, but could never ignore him.
Synopsis
Mallett (English, U. of St. Andrews) looks at the life of British writer Kipling (1865-1936) from the perspective of his work. He emphasizes his public rather than private life; the places, people, and other forces that shaped his writing; his troubled and awkward dealings with the literary world; and his increasing involvement in politics after he returned to England from America in 1896. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR