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A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literatureAt the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature, but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on figures—including the likes of Freud and William James—was vast and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and professors, he himself is treated with profound unease as a man on the wrong side of history. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to his intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy.Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sou

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Author

Christopher Benfey; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735221451

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.4 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14