Rudyard Kipling

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1978
Edition: First Edition

Description: 423 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: RUDYARD KIPLING is a masterpiece of historical biography which was completed about 1950. Regrettably, the Kipling heirs forbade its publication until 1977. Birkenhead's book takes us back to the late 1800s, when England ruled the world and her last frontier was India. Kipling defined that world to itself, shaped our language and gave our grandparents, however ephemerally, RUDYARD KIPLING is a masterpiece of historical biography which was completed about 1950. Regrettably, the Kipling heirs forbade its publication until 1977. Birkenhead's book takes us back to the late 1800s, when England ruled the world and her last frontier was India. Kipling defined that world to itself, shaped our language and gave our grandparents, however ephemerally, some conception of themselves. Kipling's genius surmounts the criticism of his detractors, and we come to understand and appreciate one of the most influential men of letters in the last 100 years. ...more

ISBN: 0297775359