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<p><p>this Absorbing, Widely Praised Biography Brings A Fresh And Sympathetic Eye To The Career Of The Prolific Writer Whose Popular Jungle Books And Collections Of Poems Like Barracks Room Ballads As Well As The Masterly Novel Kim Propelled Him To The Pinnacle Of Literary Success Before He Was Forty. With Illuminative Reinterpretations Of His Work, It Also Follows Kipling Through The Next Three Decades That Took This Complex, Troubled, And Brilliant Man To Tragic Personal Disappointments And Galling Disrepute Among The Lions Of Literary Fashion. In All, Biographer Ricketts Brings Vibrantly To Life The Diverse Worlds Of Imperialist India And Victorian London That Both Inspired And Betrayed Kipling&#8217;s Genius.<p></p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>kipling's Biographers Are Still Trying To Find A Balance Between His Reputation As An Imperialist Writer And His Actual Life. After Martin Seymour-smith's Psychologically Speculative 1990 Biography (also Titled Rudyard Kipling), The More Conservative Approach Of New Zealander Ricketts (editor Of Kipling's Lost World) Gives Some Redress To The Fiction Writer And Poet--although In The Process His Account Downplays Many Of Kipling's Late Rea

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Author

Ricketts, Harry

Publisher

New York: Carroll & Graf

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786707119

Category

biography

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.97 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14