The complete online text of The Kipling Reader by Rudyard Kipling.

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...

RUDYARD KIPLING By Martin Seymour-Smith St. Martin's. 375 pp. $22.95 ENOUGH DUST has settled on the reputation of Rudyard Kipling to make it difficult to recall the extraordinary fame that this Englishman born in India once enjoyed. By the time...

In the annals of boastful jingoism, the party was a pip. In England 100 years ago, a month was devoted to the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. Her 60 years on the throne began with memories of anxiously close calls at Trafalagar and Waterloo,...