Rudyard Kipling - The Phantom Rickshaw: “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears”

Kipling, Rudyard

ISBN 10: 1787805956 / ISBN 13: 9781787805958

Published by Miniature Masterpiece, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rudyard Kipling - The Phantom Rickshaw: ?Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears?
• Publisher: Miniature Masterpiece
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787805956
• ISBN 13: 9781787805958
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Rudyard Kipling: A great Victorian, a great writer of Empire, a great man.

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of prose and poetry in the late 19th and 20th Century and awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1907.

Born in Bombay on 30th December 1865, as was the custom in those days, he and his sister were sent back to England when he was 5. The ill-treatment and cruelty by the couple who they boarded with in Portsmouth, Kipling himself suggested, contributed to the onset of his literary life. This was further enhanced by his return to India at age 16 to work on a local paper, as not only did this result in him writing constantly but also made him explore issues of identity and national allegiance which pervade much of his work.

Whilst he is best remembered for his classic children’s stories and his popular poem ‘If…’ he is also regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story.