Rudyard Kipling fu un autore inglese di rilievo, noto per i suoi lavori in vari generi, tra cui racconti brevi, letteratura per bambini, poesia, resoconti di viaggi e fantascienza. Nacque a Bombay, in India, nel dicembre 1865, da genitori inglesi. La nascita di Kipling in India si rivelò essere un'influenza significativa sulla sua carriera letteraria, poiché molti dei suoi lavori si basarono sulle sue esperienze nel paese.
Tornato in India dall'Inghilterra all'età di 16 anni, Kipling iniziò la sua carriera come giornalista a Lahore e Allahabad. Fu durante questo periodo che pose le basi per la sua reputazione letteraria, producendo poesie e storie che divennero pietre miliari della sua carriera. Al suo ritorno a Londra nel 1889, Kipling aveva già acquisito un riconoscimento e una fama significativi per il suo lavoro.
Il successo letterario di Kipling continuò per tutta la vita, con i suoi lavori che ricevettero ampi consensi sia dalla critica che dal pubblico. È noto soprattutto per la sua raccolta di racconti, Il libro della giungla, nonché per i romanzi Kim e altri racconti. Nel 1907, Kipling fu insignito del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, diventando il primo scrittore di lingua inglese a ricevere il premio e il più giovane ad averlo ricevuto fino a quel momento.
Nonostante i molti riconoscimenti e successi, le opinioni politiche di Kipling sono state oggetto di controversia, rendendo difficile raggiungere giudizi letterari obiettivi sui suoi lavori. Tuttavia, i suoi contributi alla letteratura inglese sono innegabili e i suoi lavori continuano a essere celebrati e studiati fino ad oggi.
Lo stile di scrittura di Kipling era caratterizzato dal suo potere di osservazione, originalità di immaginazione, virilità di idee e talento straordinario per la narrazione. Fu un innovatore di spicco nell'arte della short story e un maestro della letteratura per bambini. Le sue poesie, come "Mandalay", "Gunga Din", "I dei delle testate dei manuali di copia", "Il fardello dell'uomo bianco" e "Se—", sono considerate classici della poesia inglese.
La popolarità di Kipling nel Regno Unito fu senza pari sia nella prosa che nella poesia durante la tarda epoca vittoriana e l'inizio del XX secolo. Fu persino considerato per la carica di Poeta Laureato britannico e la cavalleria, entrambi dei quali rifiutò. Kipling continuò a scrivere fino agli anni '30, sebbene i suoi lavori successivi ricevettero meno successo dei suoi primi. Morì il 18 gennaio 1936, all'età di 70 anni, dopo aver sofferto di un'ulcera duodenale perforata.
In sintesi, Rudyard Kipling fu un autore prolifico e influente, noto per le sue innovative e straordinarie opere in vari generi. Sebbene le sue opinioni politiche siano state controverse, i suoi contributi alla letteratura inglese sono innegabili e i suoi lavori continuano a essere celebrati e studiati ancora oggi.
Puck Books
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Puck of Pook's Hill
1906
2
Rewards and Fairies
1910
The Jungle Book Books
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The Jungle Book
1893
2
The Second Jungle Book
1895
Romanzi singoli
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1
The Light That Failed
1890
2
The Naulahka - A Story Of East And West
1892
3
Captains Courageous
1897
4
The Story of the Gadsbys
1899
5
Under The Deodars
1899
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Kim
1901
7
They
1905
8
With the Night Mail
1909
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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The Man Who Would Be King
1888
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The Return of Imray
1891
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
1894
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The Cat That Walked by Himself
1902
5
The Maltese Cat
1988
Raccolte di racconti
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Plain Tales from the Hills
1888
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The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories
1888
3
Life's Handicap
1891
4
Barrack-Room Ballads
1893
5
Many Inventions
1893
6
The Day's Work
1898
7
Soldiers Three
1899
8
Indian Tales
1899
9
Just So Stories
1902
10
The Five Nations
1903
11
Kipling Poems
1907
12
Traffics and Discoveries
1904
13
Actions and Reactions
1909
14
Sea Warfare
1916
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A Diversity of Creatures
1917
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The Eyes of Asia
1919
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Rudyard Kipling's Verse
1923
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The Man Who Was
1924
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Debits And Credits
1926
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Limits And Renewals
1932
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All The Mowgli Stories
1933
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Phantoms and Fantasies
1965
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Complete Verse
1972
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Kiplings Science Fiction
1987
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The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling
1987
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Kipling's Fantasy Stories
1992
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The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling
1994
28
Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
1999
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The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales
2000
30
The Elephant, The Hare And The Black Cobra
2003
31
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages
2005
32
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy (With: Neil Gaiman, Stephen Jones)
2008
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Ten Stories
2017
34
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy
2008
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The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book
2018
Libri illustrati
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The Elephant's Child
1900
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The Butterfly That Stamped
1983
Libri di non-fiction
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Letters of Marque
2009
Graphic Spin Books (with Martin Powell, with Gerardo Sandoval, with Louise Simonson, with Lisa Trumbauer, with Blake Hoena, with Scott Sonneborn, with Michael Dahl, with Stephanie True Peters, with Donald Lemke, with Beth Bracken, with Sean Tulien)
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Red Riding Hood ( By: Martin Powell)
2008
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Red Riding Hood
2008
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Cinderella (By: Beth Bracken)
2008
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Cinderella
2008
5
Jack and the Beanstalk (By: Blake Hoena)
2008
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Jack and the Beanstalk
2008
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Hansel and Gretel (By: Donald Lemke)
2008
8
Hansel and Gretel
2008
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Beauty and the Beast (By: Michael Dahl)
2008
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Beauty and the Beast
2008
11
Snow White ( By: Martin Powell)
2009
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Snow White
2009
13
Rumpelstiltskin
2009
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Rumpelstiltskin ( By: Martin Powell)
2009
15
Sleeping Beauty
2009
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Sleeping Beauty ( By: Martin Powell)
2009
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The Three Little Pigs (By: Lisa Trumbauer)
2009
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The Three Little Pigs
2009
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Rapunzel: The Graphic Novel
2009
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Rapunzel: The Graphic Novel (By: Stephanie True Peters)
2009
21
The Ugly Duckling
2009
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The Ugly Duckling (By: Martin Powell)
2009
23
The Princess and the Pea (By: Stephanie True Peters)
2009
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The Princess and the Pea
2009
25
The Emperor's New Clothes (By: Stephanie True Peters)
2009
26
The Emperor's New Clothes
2009
27
Thumbelina (By: Martin Powell, Gerardo Sandoval)
2009
28
Thumbelina
2009
29
The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan
2010
30
The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan ( By: Martin Powell)
2010
31
John Henry, Hammerin' Hero (By: Stephanie True Peters)
2010
32
John Henry, Hammerin' Hero
2010
33
Pecos Bill, Colossal Cowboy (By: Sean Tulien)
2010
34
Pecos Bill, Colossal Cowboy
2010
35
The Legend of Johnny Appleseed ( By: Martin Powell)
2010
36
The Legend of Johnny Appleseed
2010
37
The Bremen Town Musicians (By: Louise Simonson)
2011
38
The Bremen Town Musicians
2011
39
The Golden Goose (By: Sean Tulien)
2011
40
The Golden Goose
2011
41
Tom Thumb
2011
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Tom Thumb (By: Scott Sonneborn)
2011
43
The Elves and the Shoemaker
2011
44
The Elves and the Shoemaker (By: Martin Powell)
2011
45
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
2012
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How the Leopard Got His Spots
2012
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How the Camel Got His Hump
2012
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How the Elephant Got His Trunk
2012
49
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Comics
2013
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Comics (With: Martin Powell, Louise Simonson, Blake Hoena, Pedro Rodríguez, Sean Tulien)
2013
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Tall
2014
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Tall (By: Martin Powell)
2014
The Year of the Cat Books
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A Cat of a Different Color (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Louisa Swann, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, Dory Crowe)
2020
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A Cat of a Different Color
2020
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A Cat of Perfect Taste (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Saki , Charles Dudley Warner, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Kari Kilgore)
2020
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A Cat of Perfect Taste
2020
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A Cat of Disdainful Looks (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mark Twain, Ray Vukcevich, John Adams, Jodi Lyn Nye)
2020
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A Cat of Disdainful Looks
2020
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A Cat of Strange Lands (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders)
2020
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A Cat of Strange Lands
2020
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A Cat of Cozy Situations (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ed Gorman, Carole Nelson Douglas, Dean Wesley Smith, W.W. Jacobs, Mary A. Turzillo, Dory Crowe)
2020
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A Cat of Cozy Situations
2020
11
A Cat of Space and Time (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Andre Norton, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Cordwainer Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Mary Turzillo, Daemon Crowe)
2020
12
A Cat of Heroic Heart
2020
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A Cat of Heroic Heart (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Lisa Silverthorne, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Liz Pierce)
A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Henry Slesar, Joan Aiken, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mary Turzillo)
2021
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A Cat of Fantastic Whims (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Liz Pierce)
2021
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A Cat of Feral Instincts (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Brigid Collins, Dean Wesley Smith, Pamela Sargent, Jamie McNabb, Mary Turzillo, N. Margaret Campbell)
2021
21
A Cat of Romantic Soul (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anthea Sharp, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Bonnie Elizabeth, Dean Wesley Smith, Kari Kilgore)
2021
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Books
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Herbert: Poems ( By: George Herbert)
1671
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Wordsworth: Poems ( By: William Wordsworth)
1802
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Byron: Poems ( By: Lord Byron)
1816
4
Keats: Poems ( By: John Keats)
1817
5
Blake: Poems ( By: William Blake)
1827
6
Coleridge: Poems ( By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
1834
7
Poe: Poems ( By: Edgar Allan Poe)
1882
8
Tennyson: Poems ( By: Alfred Tennyson)
1892
9
Kipling: Poems
1907
10
Milton: Poems ( By: John Milton)
1936
11
Baudelaire: Poems ( By: Charles Baudelaire)
1942
12
Eliot: Poems (By: T.S. Eliot)
1955
13
Shakespeare: Poems ( By: William Shakespeare)
1958
14
Hardy: Poems ( By: Thomas Hardy)
1977
15
Shelley: Poems ( By: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
1993
16
Rossetti: Poems ( By: Christina Rossetti)
1993
17
Donne: Poems ( By: John Donne)
1995
18
Browning: Poems (By: Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
1997
19
Frost: Poems ( By: Robert Frost)
1997
20
Marvell: Poems ( By: Andrew Marvell)
2004
21
Emerson: Poems (By: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
2004
22
Burns: Poems (By: Robert Burns)
2006
23
Mozart: Letters ( By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
2007
24
Robinson: Poems (By: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
2007
25
Millay: Poems (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
2010
26
The Best of Archy and Mehitabel (By: Don Marquis)
2011
27
Rumi: Poems (By: Jalaluddin Rumi)
2019
28
Cold Mountain Poems (By: Hanshan)
2024
Poetry
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Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems
1892
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural Books (with David Stuart Davies, with Lafcadio Hearn, with Sir Andrew Caldecott)
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Strange Tales
2006
2
Oriental Ghost Stories (By: David Stuart Davies, Lafcadio Hearn)
2007
3
Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories (By: David Stuart Davies)
2007
4
Not Exactly Ghosts & Fires Burn Blue (By: Sir Andrew Caldecott)
2007
5
Crime Scenes ( By: David Stuart Davies)
2007
6
Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer (By: David Stuart Davies)
2007
7
Casebook of Sexton Blake ( By: David Stuart Davies)
2009
Poetry for Young People Books
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Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)
1977
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Robert Frost ( By: Robert Frost)
1994
3
Emily Dickinson ( By: Emily Dickinson)
1994
4
Edgar Allan Poe (By: Edgar Allan Poe)
1995
5
Carl Sandburg (By: Carl Sandburg)
1995
6
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
1998
7
Edna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
1999
8
Robert Louis Stevenson (By: Robert Louis Stevenson)
2000
9
William Shakespeare ( By: William Shakespeare)
2000
10
Lewis Carroll ( By: Lewis Carroll)
2000
11
Rudyard Kipling
2000
12
Edward Lear (By: Edward Lear)
2001
13
American Poetry (By: John Hollander)
2002
14
William Butler Yeats ( By: W.B. Yeats)
2002
15
Robert Browning (By: Robert Browning)
2003
16
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
2003
17
William Wordsworth ( By: William Wordsworth)
2003
18
Alfred Tennyson ( By: Alfred Tennyson)
2003
19
William Carlos Williams ( By: William Carlos Williams)
2003
20
Animal Poems (By: John Hollander)
2004
21
Wallace Stevens (By: Wallace Stevens)
2004
22
The Seasons (By: John N. Serio)
2004
23
Langston Hughes ( By: Langston Hughes)
2006
24
William Blake ( By: William Blake)
2007
25
Poetry for Young People (By: Maya Angelou)
2007
26
Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg (By: Carl Sandburg)
2008
27
African American Poetry (By: Karen Barbour)
2013
28
Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)
2017
Rudyard Kipling Anthologies
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50 Great Short Stories
1952
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A St. Nicholas Anthology
1969
3
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
1984
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Mysterious Sea Stories
1987
5
Famous and Curious Animal Stories
1989
6
A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling
1989
7
Tales of the Occult
1989
8
The Amis Story Anthology
1992
9
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror
1993
10
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
1993
11
Fantasy Stories
1994
12
The Anthology of Love and Romance
1994
13
Spellbound
1995
14
100 Best-Loved Poems
1995
15
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others
1997
16
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories
1997
17
Time Machines
1997
18
A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories
2000
19
Dark
2000
20
On Glorious Wings
2003
21
The World's Greatest Horror Stories
2004
22
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology
2007
23
The Little Big Book of California
2005
24
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
2006
25
Rotten English
2007
26
Empire Tales
2008
27
Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction
2008
28
Stories to Get You Through the Night
2010
29
50 Classic Novellas
2011
30
The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure
2011
31
The Phantom Coach
2014
32
That Glimpse of Truth
2014
33
Red Sky
2014
34
The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories
2015
35
The Occult Fiction Collection
2019
36
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
37
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die