Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was a famous author and poet who was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay and died 18 January 1936 aged 70 in Middlesex Hospital, London.
Recommended Reading
- Kipling Sahib : India and the making of Rudyard Kipling. London: Little, Brown, 2007 by Charles Allen. For review see [Biographies Reading List]
External links
- The Kipling Society
- Wikipedia
- Rudyard Kipling. eBooks@Adelaide (University of Adelaide) has links to an extensive online range of Kipling’s works, including articles and also his autobiography Something of Myself, for my friends known and unknown 1937
- Rudyard Kipling from Russell Tayler’s Words contains online links to various works by Kipling
- Rudyard Kipling and his masonic career www.freemasons-freemasonry.com
- Rudyard Kipling Freemason freemasonry.bcy.ca
- "In the oasis" by David Morphet The Guardian, 31 December 2005. A Kipling discovery. At Sewri Cemetery, Bombay the author is shown the grave of Mr A M Jacob of Simla, on whom the Kipling character Lurgan Sahib in the novel Kim is based.
Historical books online
- Kipling The Story Writerby Walter Morris Hart (1918) archive.org
- Rudyard Kipling Seen Through Hindu Eyes An Essay by AR Sarath-Roy (1914) archive.org
- Rudyard Kipling. A Criticism by Richard Le Gallienne (1900) archive.org
Fictional Works
- Plain Tales from the Hills 1899, first published 1888 includes a "A Biographical Sketch" Archive.org
- Under the Deodars etc 1899 first published 1888 Archive.org
- The Jungle Book 1918 edition, first published 1894 Archive.org
- Toomai of the Elephants, page 217
- The character 'Petersen Sahib' in this story was based on George P Sanderson. Scroll down for the article 'Petersen Sahib' by Sir Theodore Tasker The Kipling Journal December 1971 Kipling Society
- The Second Jungle Book 1899 first published 1895 Archive,org
- Kim with illustrations by J.L. Kipling 1912 edition, first published 1901 Archive.org
- The Light That Failed archive.org
Also see
- Bengal Pilot Service-External links
- Life in India-Railway Life
- Mining industry-Historical books online
- Opium trade-Historical books online
- Lahore-Military