Kipling Sahib : India and the making of Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1900 / Charles Allen

Allen, Charles (1940-2020)

ISBN 10: 0316726559 / ISBN 13: 9780316726559

Published by London : Little, Brown, 2007

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xix, 426 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936; Authors, English 19th century ; Biography; 1800-1899; British India ; Biography; British India ; Biography; Indic fiction (English) History and criticism; India In literature; India. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kipling Sahib : India and the making of Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1900 / Charles Allen
• Publisher: London : Little, Brown
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316726559
• ISBN 13: 9780316726559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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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.