Rudyard Kipling

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
# Titolo Anno
1 Puck of Pook's Hill 1906
2 Rewards and Fairies 1910
The Jungle Book Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Jungle Book 1893
2 The Second Jungle Book 1895
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
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
6 Kim 1901
7 They 1905
8 With the Night Mail 1909
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 The Man Who Would Be King 1888
2 The Return of Imray 1891
3 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 1894
4 The Cat That Walked by Himself 1902
5 The Maltese Cat 1988
Raccolte di racconti
# Titolo Anno
1 Plain Tales from the Hills 1888
2 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
15 A Diversity of Creatures 1917
16 The Eyes of Asia 1919
17 Rudyard Kipling's Verse 1923
18 The Man Who Was 1924
19 Debits And Credits 1926
20 Limits And Renewals 1932
21 All The Mowgli Stories 1933
22 Phantoms and Fantasies 1965
23 Complete Verse 1972
24 Kiplings Science Fiction 1987
25 The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling 1987
26 Kipling's Fantasy Stories 1992
27 The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling 1994
28 Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling 1999
29 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
33 Ten Stories 2017
34 Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy 2008
35 The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book 2018
Libri illustrati
# Titolo Anno
1 The Elephant's Child 1900
2 The Butterfly That Stamped 1983
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 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)
# Titolo Anno
1 Red Riding Hood ( By: Martin Powell) 2008
2 Red Riding Hood 2008
3 Cinderella (By: Beth Bracken) 2008
4 Cinderella 2008
5 Jack and the Beanstalk (By: Blake Hoena) 2008
6 Jack and the Beanstalk 2008
7 Hansel and Gretel (By: Donald Lemke) 2008
8 Hansel and Gretel 2008
9 Beauty and the Beast (By: Michael Dahl) 2008
10 Beauty and the Beast 2008
11 Snow White ( By: Martin Powell) 2009
12 Snow White 2009
13 Rumpelstiltskin 2009
14 Rumpelstiltskin ( By: Martin Powell) 2009
15 Sleeping Beauty 2009
16 Sleeping Beauty ( By: Martin Powell) 2009
17 The Three Little Pigs (By: Lisa Trumbauer) 2009
18 The Three Little Pigs 2009
19 Rapunzel: The Graphic Novel 2009
20 Rapunzel: The Graphic Novel (By: Stephanie True Peters) 2009
21 The Ugly Duckling 2009
22 The Ugly Duckling (By: Martin Powell) 2009
23 The Princess and the Pea (By: Stephanie True Peters) 2009
24 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
42 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
46 How the Leopard Got His Spots 2012
47 How the Camel Got His Hump 2012
48 How the Elephant Got His Trunk 2012
49 Rudyard Kipling's Just So Comics 2013
50 Rudyard Kipling's Just So Comics (With: Martin Powell, Louise Simonson, Blake Hoena, Pedro Rodríguez, Sean Tulien) 2013
51 Tall 2014
52 Tall (By: Martin Powell) 2014
The Year of the Cat Books
# Titolo Anno
1 A Cat of a Different Color (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Louisa Swann, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, Dory Crowe) 2020
2 A Cat of a Different Color 2020
3 A Cat of Perfect Taste (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Saki , Charles Dudley Warner, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Kari Kilgore) 2020
4 A Cat of Perfect Taste 2020
5 A Cat of Disdainful Looks (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mark Twain, Ray Vukcevich, John Adams, Jodi Lyn Nye) 2020
6 A Cat of Disdainful Looks 2020
7 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
8 A Cat of Strange Lands 2020
9 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
10 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
13 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) 2020
14 A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities 2021
15 A Cat of Fantastic Whims 2021
16 A Cat of Roving Nature (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Emile Zola, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dory Crowe, C.J. Erick, Sylvia Warner) 2020
17 A Cat of Feral Instincts 2021
18 A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Henry Slesar, Joan Aiken, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mary Turzillo) 2021
19 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
20 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
# Titolo Anno
1 Herbert: Poems ( By: George Herbert) 1671
2 Wordsworth: Poems ( By: William Wordsworth) 1802
3 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
# Titolo Anno
1 Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems 1892
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural Books (with David Stuart Davies, with Lafcadio Hearn, with Sir Andrew Caldecott)
# Titolo Anno
1 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
# Titolo Anno
1 Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman) 1977
2 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
# Titolo Anno
1 50 Great Short Stories 1952
2 A St. Nicholas Anthology 1969
3 The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories 1984
4 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 2019
38 A Cat of Disdainful Looks 2020
39 Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection 2023
40 Classic Cat Stories 2020