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    Rudyard Kipling - The Short Stories
    Rudyard Kipling - The Short Stories
    Rudyard Kipling - The Short Stories
    Audiobook2 hours

    Rudyard Kipling - The Short Stories

    Written by Rudyard Kipling

    Narrated by Richard Mitchley

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    The Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling. Rudayrd Kipling was one of the most popular writers of prose and poetry in the late 19th and 20th century and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. Born in Bombay on 30th December 1865 but, as was the custom of the British in India, he and his sister were sent back to England when he was 5. The ill treatment and cruelty by the couple who they boarded with in Portsmouth, Kipling himself suggested contributed to the onset of his literary life. This was further enhanced by his return to India at the age of 16 to work on a local paper as not only did this result in writing constantly but also made him explore issues of identity and national allegiance which pervade much of his work. Whilst he is best remembered for his classic children’s stories and the popular poem If, he is also regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story. This audiobook provides fine example of this skill and is read by Ghizela Rowe and Richard Mitchley.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781783940264
    Rudyard Kipling - The Short Stories
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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    • 5/5
      deep very deep Rudyard Kipling was quite a thinker and I'm thoroughly impressed by his writings
    • 3/5
      This book is difficult to assess. It is quite funny in parts and quite exciting in parts and the character of Mowgli captures the imagination. The very last story was the very first one written and is the worst. The way some animals are just by nature better than others is jarring (what's wrong with having hair between your toes, like a hobbit or a dhole?) Some of the bloodthirstiness is just pointless and so many of these jungle laws are meaningless.The new word is reboisement, but it means what it looks like it means and it's only there because the forest officer was educated in Nancy (a French city).
    • 5/5
      9/5/10-ETA This remains my desert island book.
      *****
      Practically perfect. I think that everyone should read these stories, here collected independent of the First & Second Jungle Books and including In The Rukh, a coda that tells us how Mowgli grew up. I first read these as a little girl, and if I am being completely honest, must confess that the Disney movie led me to them. These stories tower over and transcend the movie in every way, and stay quite firmly on my short list of very favorites year after year.