Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling

Charles Allen

ISBN 10: 0316726559 / ISBN 13: 9780316726559

Published by London: Little, Brown, 2007

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Condition Notes: Age-toned at the top edge of the text block, a decent copy otherwise; Hardback. Dust wrapper over brown boards with red titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (1.3 kg); pp (xix) 426; Index; Bibliography; A Later Printing. Includes: Street plans; Photographs, black-and-white and colour, on individual leaves; Black & white drawings; Maps; Illustrated lining papers; Glossary of Indian and Anglo-Indian Words; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #202411 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling
• Publisher: London: Little, Brown
• Publication Date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0316726559
• ISBN 13: 9780316726559
• Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling back out to India to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words 'Kipling will do', and thus set young Rudyard on his literary course. And so it was that at the start of the cold weather of 1882 he stepped ashore at Bombay on 18 October 1882 - 'a prince entering his kingdom'. He stayed for seven years during which he wrote the work that established him as a popular and critical, sometimes controversial, success. Charles Allen has written a brilliant account of those years - of an Indian childhood and coming of age, of abandonment in England, of family and Empire. He traces the Indian experiences of Kipling's parents, Lockwood and Alice, and reveals what kind of culture the young writer was born into and then returned to when still a teenager. It is a work of fantastic sympathy for a man - though not blind to Kipling's failings - and the country he loved.

About the Author

Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about Indian and the colonial experience elsewhere. A traveller, historian and master storyteller he is one of the great chroniclers of India.