The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: Volume 2: 1890-99

. Ed(s): Kipling, Rudyard

ISBN 10: 0333360869 / ISBN 13: 9780333360866

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

About this Item

The second part of a four volume collection of more than 6000 of Kipling's public and private letters. This volume presents his life until the end of the 19th century, showing his transformation from an journalist in India into the biggest literary success of the 1890s. Editor(s): Kipling, Rudyard. Num Pages: 396 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; BJ; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 787. . 1990. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: Volume 2: 1890-99
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333360869
• ISBN 13: 9780333360866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Kipling's letters, never before collected and edited and largely unpublished, are now presented in an annotated edition based on the more than 6,000 letters preserved in public and private collections all over the world. Planned in an edition of four volumes, the Letters reveal Kipling with a fullness and immediacy of detail unmatched by any other source. The first two volumes present the first half of Kipling's life, down to the end of the nineteenth century. They show the remarkable transformation of the young schoolboy into the seasoned Indian journalist, and the even more remarkable transformation of the Indian journalist into the famous writer, the most dazzling literary success of the 1890s. Kipling's hard years of apprenticeship, his restless travels and eager encounters with cities and men, his triumphant struggles in the literary wars, are all vividly set forth. The Letters also take Kipling through his marriage and the births of his children, through the mingled happiness and distress of his American years, to the tragedy of his daughter's death at the very highest moment of his literary fame.