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Prologue: This strange excuse -- A denizen of the moon -- At Longfellow's grave -- A death in Dresden -- A Buddha snowman -- An ark for Josephine -- The fourth dimension -- Adopted by wolves -- At the Washington Zoo -- A fishing trip -- Dharma bums -- War fever -- The flooded brook -- Epilogue: American hustle.;Kipling once towered over the entire literary world. Few realize that Kipling's most prodigious and creative period took place in America, which was also his preferred home. Benfey brings to life in fresh revelatory detail American Kipling, from 1889 to 1899, and especially his four years living in Brattleboro, Vermont. He traces the writer's intense personal, political, and artistic involvement with the United States, mapping the imprint he left on his adopted country as well as the impresion the country left on Kipling. -- adapted from jacket;"Rudyard Kipling once towered over not just English literature, but indeed the entire literary world. In 1907, at just forty-two, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner and the first in the English language. Today, however, when he is read, if indeed he is read at all, it is regarding the history

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Author

University of South Alabama;Benfey, Christopher E. G.;Kipling, Rudyard

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735221444

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Criticism, History

Rating

4.4 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14