The Rudyard Kipling Page

( 1865-1936 )

Major Works
There are several works by Kipling available from Penguin, including The Portable Kipling, edited by Irving Howe, and from Oxford, whose World's Classics include nine works and collections.
Departmental Ditties ( 1886 ).
Plain Tales from the Hills ( 1888 ).
Soldiers Three ( 1888 ).
From Sea to Sea ( 1889 ).
Life's Handicap ( 1891 ).
The Light that Failed ( 1891 ).
Barrack-Room Ballads ( 1892 ).
The Naulahka ( 1892 ). Collaboration with Charles W. Balestier, his brother-in-law.
Many Inventions ( 1893 ).
The Jungle Book ( 1894 ). On Line
The Second Jungle Book ( 1895 ).
The Seven Seas ( 1896 ).
Captains Courageous ( 1897 ).
A Day's Work ( 1898 ).
American Notes ( 1899 ). On Line
Recessional and Other Poems ( 1899 ).
Stalky and Co. ( 1899 ). About Schoolboy life at Westward Ho ! United Services College, where RK spent the years 1878-1882.
Kim ( 1901 ). On Line
Just So Stories ( 1902 ).
Five Nations ( 1903 ).
Traffics and Discoveries ( 1904 ).
They ( 1905 ).
Puck of Pook's Hill ( 1906 ). On Line
Brushwood Boy ( 1907 ).
Actions and Reactions ( 1909 ).
Rewards and Fairies ( 1910 ).
Diversity of Creatures ( 1917 ).
Years Between ( 1917 ).
Letters of Travel ( 1920 ).
The Irish Guards in the Great War ( 1923 ). Kipling's son John, a member of this regiment, was killed in action in 1915.
Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides ( 1923 ).
Debits and Credits ( 1926 ).
The Complete Stalky ( 1926 ). The earlier Stalky enlarged.
Limits and Renewals ( 1932 ).
Something of Myself for My Friends ( 1937 ). Autobiography unfinished at his death.
Collected Verse ( 1940 ). The 'definitive' edition.
Selected Poems On Line from The Poet's Corner.
Selected Kipling Fiction Extensive list from Bibliomania. Includes brief biography and links.

About Kipling
Charles Carrington, Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work. Macmillan, 1955. Carrington is aware of Kipling's occasional shortcomings but sympathizes with his politics and admires his best writing. He brings back to life this poet of the common people.
RK at Brown's Victorian Web
Kipling Criticism from Internet Public Library.
The Kipling Society A handsome Web site from the U. K.

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