The British poet and story writer Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the first masters of the short story in English and the first to use Cockney dialect in serious poetry. Rudyard Kipling's early stories and poems about life in colonial India...

The years 1890-1932, during which Joseph Rudyard Kipling was having his books published in London and New York, coincided with the development of modernism and its establishment as the dominant literary style of the twentieth century. Kipling's immense b...

The years 1890-1932, during which Joseph Rudyard Kipling was having his books published in London and New York, coincided with the development of modernism and its establishment as the dominant literary style of the twentieth century. Kipling's immense b...

'Listen, Bill, ' wrote P. G. Wodehouse (in a letter published in Performing Flea), 'something really must be done about Kip's "Mrs Bathurst". I read it years ago and didn't understand a word of it. I thought to myself, "Ah, youthful ignorance!" A week...

David Bathurst, 54, who resigned as chairman of the British auctioneering firm Christie's in 1985 after admitting he had lied about the sales of two impressionist paintings, died Sept. 20 after a heart attack. He was stricken while shooting in Scotland. A member...