Creative Guide to Patchwork and Applique

Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work - including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire, 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. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.