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Rudyard Kipling: a biography by Seymour-Smith, Martin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rudyard Kipling: a biography about?
The standing of Rudyard Kipling, barrackroom balladeer to the common man and poet laureate of the high noon of Empire, has suffered at the hands of our changing social values in the five decades since his death. Now Martin Seymour-Smith has taken advantage of the lifting of constraints so long imposed by the Kipling family with the granting of extensive access to Kipling's personal papers. The resulting biography contains an investigation into Kipling's sexuality as a mainspring of his creativity, and the author's introduction to this edition offers a response to the criticism which his analysis provoked.
Who reads Rudyard Kipling: a biography?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Seymour-Smith, Martin
- Publisher
- New York: St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312039257
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Biography
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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