Many Inventions, by Rudyard Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard

ISBN 10: 1530837294 ISBN 13: 9781530837298

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

1918. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Contents: The Disturber of Traffic; A Conference of the Powers; My Lord the Elephant; One View of the Question; The Finest Story in the World; His Private Honor; A Matter of Fact; The Lost Legion; In the Rukh; Brugglesmith; Love-o-Women; The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot; Judson and the Empire; and The Children of the Zodiac. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing

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About the Author

Nobel prize-winning writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Influenced by experiences in both India and England, Kipling s stories celebrate British imperialism and the experience of the British soldier in India. Amongst Kipling s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems Mandalay and Gunga Din. Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature (1907) and was amongst the youngest to receive the award. Kipling died in 1936 and is interred in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1530837294
• ISBN 13: 9781530837298
• Number of pages: 160