Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1528252594 ISBN 13: 9781528252591

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know

This book has been sixteen years on the way, and it has arrived. Long years ago many teachers in central Illinois said: We want a Kipling book. The demand was for a book that could be used in each grade of the public schools, if possible in the child's own hands. The use of The Just SO Stories and The Jungle Book has come more and more into practice through the importunities Of teachers. These books have been entered on many school lists as supplementary reading. This book is intended to reach the hands of chil dren in lower grades, kindergartens, and nurseries, by its picture pages, which will be supplemented by the reading of the text by teachers or parents.

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About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "[Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1528252594
• ISBN 13: 9781528252591
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 412