The Letters of Rudyard Kipling (complete 6 volume set)

Kipling, Rudyard (edited by Thomas Pinney

ISBN 10: 1403921334 / ISBN 13: 9781403921338

Published by The Macmillan Press & Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke & London, 1990

About this Item

1990-2004. Complete 6 volume set. Approx 400-600 pages per volume. B&W plates. All six volumes of Thomas Pinney's "The Letters of Rudyard Kipling".These volumes present Kipling's annotated letters for the first time, revealing Kipling with a fullness and immediacy of detail unmatched by any other source. Volumes 1 and 2 present the first half of Kipling's life, showing the remarkable transformation of the young schoolboy into the seasoned Indian journalist and then famous writer the most dazzling literary success of the 1890s. Volume 3 looks at the decade in which Kipling published "Kim", "Just So Stories", "The Five Nations" and other major works, his involvement in politics and move to South Africa and the growing record of his honours (including the Nobel Prize). Volume 4 explores Kipling's years as war correspondent and propagandist, and the death of his only son in 1915. Volume 5 focuses on Kipling's life through the post-war decade of the 1920s, while Volume 6 covers the last five years of Kipling's life and includes a full index to all six volumes of the edition. All dust jackets are present and unclipped. Volumes 1 & 2 are in very good condition with light wear and slight soiling to the top edges. The dust jackets have some slight creasing. Volumes 3, 4, 5 & 6 are all in near fine condition in near fine dust jackets. £ of the volumes have had some pencil marking but this has now been erased. PLEASE NOTE: Heavy set so extra will be needed for shipping to non-UK customers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Letters of Rudyard Kipling (complete 6 volume set)
• Publisher: The Macmillan Press & Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke & London
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403921334
• ISBN 13: 9781403921338
• Binding: Original Black Hardcovers
• Edition: First Editions
• Condition: Very Good - Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • India

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Synopsis

The most popular author of his day and a paradox who was both an assertive British imperialist and a man of sensitivity and wide reading, Rudyard Kipling is best remembered now as the author of The Jungle Book, the Just-So Stories, and Kim. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907—the first Englishman to receive this prize. Fully annotated, volumes 5 and 6 conclude the publication of Kipling’s letters, a heroic effort that began with the publication of volume 1 in 1990. The sixth and last volume focuses on Kipling’s final years. Despite his increased suffering, he traveled a great deal (Egypt, France, Marienbad, and Monte Carlo, plus a tour of the Midlands in his new Rolls Royce), published three books (Limits and Renewals, Souvenirs of France, and Collected Dog Stories), and was made an honorary fellow of Magdalene College and a member of the Institut de France. Aware of his approaching end, he worked at two great retrospective efforts: the splendid Sussex Edition and the autobiographical Something of Myself; both were published posthumously. On January 18, 1936, he died in Middlesex Hospital; his ashes are buried in the Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey.

Each volume contains a chronology of Kipling’s life from 1920–30 and 1931–36, respectively; volume 6 also includes errata for the first four volumes and a comprehensive index to all six volumes of this distinguished collection.