Bauer, Helen Pike, Rudyard Kipling: A Study in Short Fiction, Twayne, 1994.

Bauer explores the themes and morals of Kipling's short fiction. The book includes essays on the Mowgli tales and other short works.

Cain, Peter, and Tony Hopkins, British Imperialism, 1688—2000, 2d ed., Longman, 2001.

Critic R. D. Long calls this book "the standard work on British Imperialism and may remain so for the foreseeable future."

Gilmour, David, The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, Farrar, 2003.

Gilmour focuses on Kipling's political life and his pessimistic approach to the colonization that made him a rare human and British imperialist.

Mallett, Phillip, Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Mallett studies the influences on Kipling's work, including his family, his laureate status, and his relation to the literary world.

Orel, Harold, A Kipling Chronology, G. K. Hall, 1990.

Orel provides an excellent reference outlining Kipling's life and...