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Rudyard Kipling, a literary life, Phillip Mallett

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-215) and index

individual biography

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Rudyard Kipling

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Phillip Mallett

Literary lives

a literary life

This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Rudyard Kipling's work - including his unusual family background, his role as laureate of the Empire, and the deaths of two of his children., Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work - including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire, the deaths of two of his children - and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him, but could never ignore him