Life's Handicap (World's Classics S.)

Rudyard Kipling, A. O. J. Cockshut

ISBN 10: 0192816713 / ISBN 13: 9780192816719

Published by Oxford Paperbacks 01/12/1987, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life's Handicap (World's Classics S.)
• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks 01/12/1987
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192816713
• ISBN 13: 9780192816719
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This collection of 24 short stories and poems, an early one in Kipling's career, presages the full range of subject and technique that he was to attain in his later work. This volume highlights Kipling's fascination with the deep contrasts in Indian life and his ambivalent attitude to the ruling British administration.

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems including Mandalay, Gunga Din, and Danny Deeverwhich made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kimwhich became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in 1936