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![formal portrait of British author Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936]](images/RudyardKipling.jpg "formal portrait of British author Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936]") | short profile |
“For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
“I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”
“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”
“There are, however, legends.”
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Rudyard Kipling entry at Wikipedia
browse Rudyard Kipling Store {almost 300 titles} at Amazon
Rudyard Kipling credits [since 1910] at Internet Movie Database
Rudyard Kipling bibliography listing at Wikipedia
1907 Nobel Prize in Literature
General & Critical Works
"A Bibliography of The Works of Rudyard Kipling" [1927]
by Flora V. Livingston
Burt Franklin pb [1968] out of print/scarce
Burt Franklin 9x6½ hardcover [6/1927] out of print/used
 | "The Works of Rudyard Kipling; One Volume Edition" [1929]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2011] for FREE {sic} Black's Readers Service Company 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1930] out of print/used Neither edition is a 'Complete Works' volume; Amazon reviewers complain of difficulty in navigation |
 | "The Portable Kipling" [1982] Edited by & with a Critical Introduction by Irving Howe includes 28 short stories, 56 poems, and three essays by Kipling, plus a 'complete publication chronology' Penguin Books 7¾x5¼ pb [3/82] for $19.76 Viking Adult hardcover [3/82] out of print/used |
 | "Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Rudyard Kipling" [2000] Edited & with an Introduction by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019] Chelsea House Publns 9½x6½ library hardcover [1/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Bloom's Major Short Story Writers: Rudyard Kipling" [2003] Edited & with an Introduction by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019] Chelsea House Publng 9¼x6¼ library hardcover [8/2003] for $28.76 |
 | "Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind" [2007] Bibliography & Introductory Essay by David Alan Richards Beinecke Rare Book Library 11½x8¾ hardcover [7/2007] for $27.00 |
 | "Kipling's Children's Literature: Language, Identity, and Constructions of Childhood" [2010] by Sue Walsh
Kindle Edition from Ashgate [4/2013] for $95.96 {sic} Ashgate 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2010] out of print/used |
 | "The Cambridge Companion To Rudyard Kipling" [2011] Edited by Dr. Howard J. Booth Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [3/2014] for $15.49 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/2011] for $31.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2011] for $94.99 {sic} |
 | "Kipling's Art of Fiction, 1884-1901" [2013] by David Sergeant
rather a scholarly work, reviewer uses terms such as 'authoritarian control of meaning' and 'embodiment and externality' Oxford Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [12/2013] for $80.75 {sic} |
Stories by Rudyard Kipling
browse Rudyard Kipling Store {almost 300 titles} at Amazon
"Plain Tales From The Hills" [1888]
"Soldiers Three" [1888]
"The Story of The Gadsbys" [1888]
"In Black and White" [1888]
"Under The Deodars" [1888]
"The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales" [1888]
"Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories" [1888]
 | "Indian Tales" [1890] by Rudyard Kipling 36 Kipling short stories: "At Twenty-Two", "Beyond The Pale", "The Big Drunk Draf'", "Black Jack", "The Broken-Link Handicap", "By Word of Mouth", "The Courting of Dinah Shadd", "The Daughter of The Regiment", "The Drums of The Fore and Aft", "The Finest Story In The World", "The Gate of The Hundred Sorrows", "The God From The Machine", "His Majesty The King", "In Flood Time", "In The House of Suddhoo", "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney", "L'Envoi", "The Madness of Private Ortheris", "Main Guard", "The Man Who Would Be King", "My Own True Ghost Story", "On Greenhow Hill", "On The City Wall", "On the Strength of A Likeness", "The Phantom Rickshaw", "Private Learoyd's Story", "The Rout of The White Hussars", "The Sending of Dana Da", "The Solid Muldoon", "The Story of Muhammad Din", "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes", "The Taking of Lungtungpen", "The Three Musketeers", "To Be Filed For Reference", "Wee Willie Winkie", and "Wressley of The Foreign Office" Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [2/2014] for 99¢ {sic} Kindle Edition from Seahorse Publng [6/2013] for 99¢ {sic} Kindle Edition from BookRix [4/2014] for $1.99 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [12/2012] for $10.44 BiblioLife 9¼x6 hardcover [8/2008] for $35.55 |
"Many Inventions" [1893]
"The Jungle Book" [stories 1893-94, book 1894]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book
M§ indicates Mowgli story: "Mowgli's Brothers" M§; "Hunting-Song of The Seeonee Pack" (poem); "Kaa's Hunting" M§; "Road-Song of The Bandar-Log" (poem); "Tiger! Tiger!" M§; "Mowgli's Song That He Sang At The Council Rock When He Danced On Shere Khan's Hide" M§ (poem); "The White Seal"; "Lukannon" (poem); "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"; "Darzee's Chaunt (Sung In Honour of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi)" (poem); "Toomai of The Elephants"; "Shiv and The Grasshopper (The Song That Toomai's Mother Sang To The Baby)" (poem); "Her Majesty's Servants" (originally titled "Servants of The Queen"); and "Parade-Song of The Camp Animals" (poem)
"The Second Jungle Book" [1895]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Jungle_Book
M§ indicates Mowgli story: "How Fear Came" M§; "The Law of The Jungle" (poem); "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat"; "A Song of Kabir" (poem); "Letting In The Jungle" M§; "Mowgli's Song Against People" M§ (poem); "The Undertakers"; "A Ripple Song" (poem); "The King's Ankus" M§; "The Song of The Little Hunter" (poem); "Quiquern"; "Angutivaun Taina" (poem); "Red Dog" M§; "Chil's Song" (poem); "The Spring Running" M§; and "The Outsong" (poem)
 | "The Two Jungle Books: Complete & Unabridged" [1925] by Rudyard Kipling with Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling & W.H. Drake Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [9/2010] for $29.56 Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [9/2010] for $41.56 Garden City Publng hardcover [1940] out of print/used Doubleday, Page & Co. 9x6½ hardcover [1925] out of print/used |
 | "All The Mowgli Stories" [1936] by Rudyard Kipling, Illustrated by Maurice Wilson Macmillan Children's Books mass pb [9/85] out of print/used Macmillan Children's Books 8½x6½ hardcover [10/84] out of print/used |
 | "The Jungle Books" [1985] by Rudyard Kipling
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [11/2014] for 99¢ {sic} Kindle Edition from Penguin Classics [5/2013] for $6.77 Bantam Classics mass pb [12/85] for $4.95 Penguin Classics 7¾x5 pb [7/2013] for $8.33 |
 | "The Jungle Books (Oxford World's Classics)" [1987] Edited with An Introduction & Notes by W.W. Robson contains Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography, Chronology of Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book", "The Second Jungle Book", Appendices & Explanatory Notes Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [1992 edition] for $3.89 Oxford Univ Press 7½x5 pb [8/2008] for $8.95 Oxford Univ Press 7¾x5 pb [8/98] out of print/40+ used |
 | "The Third Jungle Book" [1992] by Pamela Jekel, original illustrations by Nancy Malick a well-received collection of new stories about Mowgli and his animal companions (though apparently with a feminist slant) Roberts Rinehart Publng 9¾x7½ hardcover [9/92] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Mowgli Stories, Duly Annotated" [2011] Edited by G.M.W. Wemyss & Markham Shaw Pyle Second Edition with three prefatory essays; the eleven stories are in order of the internal time (rather than publication date) Kindle Edition from Bapton Books [11/2011] for $2.99 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [12/2012] for $9.44 |
 | "The Jungle Books" for Kindle [2015]
Kindle Edition from Top Five Books [3/2015] for FREE {sic} |
"Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book" 105-minute Technicolor™ live-action movie [1942]
directed by Zoltán Korda, starring Sabu (Dastagir)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Book_(1942_film)
"The Jungle Book" animated film [Disney 1967]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book_(1967_film)
"Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book" [Disney 1994] starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling%27s_The_Jungle_Book
"The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo" [1997] starring Jamie Williams as Mowgli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Jungle_Book:_Mowgli_and_Baloo
"The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story" [1998] starring Brandon Baker as Mowgli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Book:_Mowgli%27s_Story
"The Jungle Book 2" animated theatrical sequel [DisneyToon Studios 2003]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book_2
more details (synopses, sequels, stageplays, posters, books & ebooks, links, merchandise) on
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"The Naulahka: A Story of West and East" [1892]
"The Day's Work" [1898]
"A Fleet In Being" [1898]
"Stalky & Co." [1899]
"Just So Stories For Little Children" [1902]
thirteen stories: "How the Whale Got His Throat"; "How the Camel Got His Hump"; "How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin"; "How The Leopard Got His Spots"; "The Elephant's Child"; "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"; "The Beginning of The Armadillos"; "How The First Letter Was Written"; "How The Alphabet Was Made"; "The Crab That Played With The Sea"; "The Cat That Walked By Himself"; and "The Butterfly That Stamped"
"Traffics and Discoveries" 24 collected short stories [1904]
"With The Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. - Together With Extracts From
The Magazine In Which It Appeared)" sci-fi short story [1905]
"Puck of Pook's Hill" [1906]
"The Brushwood Boy" [1907]
"Actions and Reactions" [1909]
"A Song of The English" [1909] Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
"Rewards and Fairies" [1910]
"Songs From Books" [1912]
"As Easy As A.B.C." sci-fi short story [1912]
"A Diversity of Creatures" [1917]
"Land and Sea Tales For Scouts and Guides" [1923]
"Night-Song In The Jungle" [1925] was a book version of the "Mowgli's Brothers" short story
"Debits and Credits" [1926]
"Thy Servant A Dog" [1930]
"Limits and Renewals" [1932]
"Tales of India: The Windermere Series" [1935]
 | "Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy" [50 stories; 2008] Introduction by Neil Gaiman, Afterword by Stephen Jones Kindle Edition from Pegasus [11/2008] for $11.49 Pegasus 9x6 pb [11/2008] for $15.80 Fall River Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2008] out of print/many used |
Novels by Rudyard Kipling
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"The Man Who Would Be King" [1888 novella]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_(film) [1975]
"Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King" feature film [1975] /tt0073341/
"The Light that Failed" [1891]
"Captains Courageous: A Story of The Grand Banks" [1896]
"Kim" [serial 1900, book 1901]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(novel)
"Rudyard Kipling's Kim" [1950] starring Errol Flynn
http://www.imdb.com/ra/us/a/B00009RDGB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(film) [1950] starring Errol Flynn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(TV_film) [1984] starring Peter O'Toole
http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Message-Rudyard-Kiplings-Novel-ebook/dp/B007GH3G9W/
 | "The Great Game: The Struggle For Empire In Central Asia" [1990] by Peter Hopkirk The geo-political 'Great Game' between Victorian England and Imperial Russia for dominance in India and neighboring nations began in the middle of the XIXth Century, continued thru World War I and the Russian Revolution to end only with Britain's post-World War II loss of world stature and with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. (Not so much here about Kipling and "Kim", consider the book 'deep background'.) Kodansha Intl. 8x5½ pb [5/92] for $14.42 Kodansha America 9½x6½ hardcover [9/92] out of print/used |
 | "Quest For Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game" [1997] by Peter Hopkirk
Author covers the 'Great Game' (as in his broader book just above) between Britain and Russia and the constant seeking of intelligence very similar to the later Cold War, and then provides real-life candidates for the many central fictional characters of the novel. Kindle Edition from John Murray/Hachette [2/2012] for $6.49 Univ Michigan Press 8½x5½ pb [10/99] for $23.70 Univ Michigan Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [5/97] out of print/used |
Poems by Rudyard Kipling
"Departmental Ditties" [1886]
"Barrack-Room Ballads" [1892]
philosopher Ayn Rand's favorite poem: Rudyard Kipling's "If" (1895)
"The Seven Seas" [1896]
"The Five Nations" [1903]
"The Years Between" [1919]
"The Muse Among The Motors" []
http://www.amazon.com/100-Poems-Old-Rudyard-Kipling/dp/1107050448/
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Verse-Rudyard-Kipling-ebook/dp/B009VKWB3Y/
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Leander-Inspiration-Kiplings-Masterpiece-ebook/dp/B00AJ2QFXA/
http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Rudyard-Kipling-Vol-2-ebook/dp/B00G3DFL1G/
http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Rudyard-Kipling-Vol-3-ebook/dp/B00G3DFL3E/
http://www.amazon.com/Rudyard-Kipling-Everymans-Poetry-ebook/dp/B00H6SIQ9Q/
http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Penguin-Classics-Rudyard-Kipling-ebook/dp/B003P9XD34/
http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-If-Essence-Kiplings-Inspirational-ebook/dp/B00598808C/
"The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling" [Wordsworth 12/1999]
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Rudyard-Kipling-Wordsworth-Library/dp/1853264059/
 | "Sixty Poems by Rudyard Kipling" [1939]
includes "If", "Gunga Din", "The Glory of The Garden", "Recessional", and "McAndrew's Hymn" Hodder & Stoughton UK 7¾x5 pb [1974] out of print/used Hodder & Stoughton UK 7x4¼ hardcover [1939] out of print/used |
 | "Poetry For Young People: Rudyard Kipling" [ages 10 & up; 2000] Edited by Eileen Gillooly, Illustrated by Jim Sharpe includes twenty-eight poems (or parts of poems) Sterling Publng 9¾x8¼ pb [4/2010] for $6.95 Sterling Publng 10¼x8¾ hardcover [3/2000] out of print/40+ used |
 | "The Cambridge Edition of The Poems of Rudyard Kipling" in 3 volumes [2013] Edited by Thomas Pinney Besides the many previously-known poetry works, over 550 uncollected and-or unpublished poems are also gathered here Cambridge Univ Press 9x6x5½"wide hardcover set [4/2013] for $310.54 {sic} |
Other Works
"Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People" [1891]
"American Notes" [1891]
"From Sea To Sea – Letters of Travel" [1899]
"A History of England" [1911] with Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher
"The Fringes of The Fleet" [1915]
"France At War: On The Frontier of Civilization" [1915]
"Sea Warfare" [1916]
"The Irish Guards In The Great War" [1923]
"A Book of Words" [1928]
"Something of Myself" autobiography [1937]
http://www.amazon.com/Writings-Writing-Rudyard-Kipling/dp/0521111757/ [7/1996]
http://www.amazon.com/Writings-Writing-Rudyard-Kipling/dp/0521445272/
 | "The Sayings of Rudyard Kipling" [2003] Edited by A. Rutherford Kindle Edition from Duckworth Overlook [10/2013] for $2.85 Bristol Classical Press 64-page 8x4½ pb booklet [7/2003] for $3.00 |
 | "Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words" [2008] Edited by Thomas Pinney E.L.T. Press 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2008] for $37.58 |
 | "Great Writers On The Great War: Kipling's War" [2014] Edited by Alan Mabley Seven excerpts from four of Kipling's articles & pamphlets: 'The New Army In Training', 'France At War', 'The War In The Mountains' and 'The War At Sea', as well as from his history of the Irish Guards Kindle Edition from Amberley Publng [8/2014] for $9.99 |
Movies, Stageplays, Other Media
"Baa Baa Black Sheep" opera [Australia 1993] based on Kipling's 1888 autobiographical short story
libretto by novelist David Malouf and music by English composer Michael Berkeley
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 | "Kipling Readings" from Audible Audio [2009]
Saland Publng audio CD [5/2009] for $6.95 hour-long CD with poems & stories read by Boris Karloff, Raymond Massey & Christopher Hassall, and a speech in Canada by Rudyard Kipling; second track by Kipling is 'reflections on war', either a speech or an interview |
Kipling's {incomplete} Broadway stageplay credits [1903-13 & 1984] at Internet Broadway Database
"The Light That Failed" Broadway stageplay [Nov-Dec 1903]
Written by George Fleming from the 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling
"The Man Who Was" [Dec 1905-??]
one-act stageplay written by Rudyard Kipling, 'dramatized by F. Kinsey Peile'
"A Fool There Was" Broadway stageplay [March-June 1909]
written by Porter Emerson Browne, based on the poem "The Vampire" by Rudyard Kipling
Broadway credits at IBDb • filmed in 1915 starring Theda Bara {see below}
"The Light That Failed" Broadway revival [Sept-Dec 1913]
Written by George Fleming from the 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling
"Kipling" one-man stageplay [Oct 1984]
Written by Brian Clark based on the works of Rudyard Kipling, starring Alec McCowen
the 1998 audio recording is quite rare
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Rudyard Kipling credits [since 1910] at Internet Movie Database
character credits [1939-2007] for 'Rudyard Kipling' at Internet Movie Database
"A Fool There Was" silent feature film [Fox Film Corp. Jan 1915]
 | Theda Bara portrays a sexy 'vamp' who seduces and corrupts and fleeces a married, moralistic Wall Street banker. Co-written & directed by Frank Powell; based on the 1909 Broadway stageplay by Porter Emerson Browne, which was based on the poem "The Vampire" by Rudyard Kipling; co-written by Roy L. McCardell; starring Theda Bara, Edward José, Mabel Frenyear, May Allison, Clifford Bruce, Victor Benoit, Frank Powell & Minna Gale
Alpha Home Ent. b&w DVD [12/2010] for $7.51 also contains "The Sultan's Wife" [1917 silent] Kino Video b&w DVD [4/2002] for $16.31 Kino Video b&w VHS [4/2002] for $9.98 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Fultah Fisher's Boarding House"
[Fireside/Pathé April 1922 silent short]
Co-written & directed by Frank Capra; based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling • full credits from IMDb
Korda's "Elephant Boy" [1937]
based on Rudyard Kipling's short story "Toomai of The Elephants"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjUrsVhzMn0
"Wee Willie Winkie" [Fox July 1937]
Directed by John Ford; based on the Rudyard Kipling story; starring Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen & C. Aubrey Smith
full credits from IMDb
"Gunga Din" [R.K.O. Jan 1939]
 | In XIXth Century India, three happy-go-lucky British sergeants and a native water-bearer stand off an army of Thugee rebels at Khyber Pass.
Directed by George Stevens; story by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling; script by Joel Sayre & Fred Guiol; starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. & Sam Jaffe; Oscar nomination for Best B&W Cinematography, listed on National Film Registry (1999)
Warner b&w DVD [12/2004] for $14.99 Turner b&w VHS [5/93] out of prodn/used 11"x17" poster available at AllPosters [dot] com full credits from IMDb |
"Baa Baa Black Sheep" TV movie [ITV U.K. 1974, PBS USA 1977] /tt0071181/
directed by Mike Newell, based on the 1888 autobiographical short story
"The Black Sheep" TV episode [Dec 1960] of the NBC-TV series "Shirley Temple's Storybook"
based on the 1888 autobiographical short story
"Scape" [2010] /tt1665762/ based on the short story 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes' by Rudyard Kipling
http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Ride-Morrowbie-Jukes-Annotated-ebook/dp/B00HZAKQAM/
Kindle Editions
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 | "Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2011] contents organized as follows: FOUR NOVELS: "The Light That Failed" [1891], "The Naulahka" [1892], "Captains Courageous" [1896], and "Kim" [1901]; SHORTER FICTION: "The City of Dreadful Night" (1885 short story); "Quartette" [1885]; "Plain Tales From The Hills" [1888]; "Soldiers Three & Other Stories" [1888]; "Under The Deodars" [1888]; "The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales" [1888]; "Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories" [1888]; "Life's Handicap" [1891]; "Many Inventions" [1893]; "The Jungle Book" [1894]; "The Second Jungle Book" [1895]; "The Day's Work" [1898]; "Stalky & Co." [1899]; "Just So Stories For Little Children" [1902]; "Traffics and Discoveries" [1904]; "Puck of Pook's Hill" [1906]; "Actions and Reactions" [1909]; "Abaft The Funnel" [1909]; "Rewards and Fairies" [1910]; and "A Diversity of Creatures" [1917]; SHORT STORIES: chronological list & alphabetical list; TRAVEL WRITING: "From Sea To Sea and Other Sketches: Letters of Travel, 1887-1889" [1899]; "American Notes" [1891]; "Letters of Travel, 1892–1913" [1920]; "Souvenirs of France" [1933]; and "Brazilian Sketches, 1927" [1940]; POETRY: list of the complete poetry; NON-FICTION: "A Fleet In Being" [1898]; "How Shakespeare Came To Write The Tempest" (1898); "A History of England" [1911]; "The New Army In Training" [1915]; "France At War" [1915]; "The Fringes of The Fleet" [1915]; "Sea Warfare" [1916]; "The War In The Mountains" [1917]; "The Eyes of Asia" [1917]; "The Graves of The Fallen" [1919]; and "The Irish Guards In The Great War" [1923] Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [8/2011] for $2.51 {sic} |
 | "Works of Rudyard Kipling (43 Works)" for Kindle [2013]
43 works with 'dynamic table of contents: "A Diversity of Creatures"; "A Song of The English"; "Actions and Reactions"; "American Notes"; "An Almanac of Twelve Sports"; "Barrack Room Ballads"; "The Bridge-Builders"; "Captains Courageous" (novel); "The Day's Work, Parts 1 & 2"; "Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads"; "The Eyes of Asia"; "France At War"; "From Sea To Sea"; "How Shakespeare Came To Write The Tempest"; "Indian Tales"; "The Jungle Book"; "Just So Stories"; "Kim" (novel); "The Kipling Reader"; "Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know"; "Letters of Travel, 1892-1913"; "Life's Handicap"; "The Light That Failed"; "The Man Who Would Be King"; "The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories"; "Plain Tales From The Hills"; "Puck of Pook's Hill"; "Rewards and Fairies"; "Sea Warfare"; "The Second Jungle Book"; "The Seven Seas"; "Soldier Stories"; "Soldiers Three, Parts 1 & 2"; "Stalky and Co."; "The Story of The Gadsby"; "Traffics and Discoveries"; "Under The Deodars"; "Verses, 1889-1896"; "With The Night Mail"; "The Works of Rudyard Kipling In One Volume"; and "The Years Between" Kindle Edition from The Perfect Library [9/2013] for $2.99 |
 | "Works of Rudyard Kipling" for Kindle [2007]
Includes {only} 24 classics by Rudyard Kipling, 'indexed for easy navigation': "A Diversity of Creatures"; "Actions and Reactions"; "American Notes"; "The Bridge-Builders"; "Captains Courageous" (novel)"; "The Day's Work"; "France At War"; "The Jungle Book"; "Just So Stories"; "Kim" (novel)"; "The Kipling Reader"; "Letters of Travel, 1892-1913 (Dominions Edition)"; "Life's Handicap"; "The Light That Failed"; "The Man Who Would Be King"; "The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories"; "Plain Tales From The Hills"; "The Second Jungle Book"; "Soldiers Three"; "Songs From Books"; "Stalky and Co."; "The Story of The Gadsby"; "Traffics and Discoveries"; and "Under The Deodars" Kindle Edition from Packard Technologies [2007 edition] for $4.95 |
 | Two Books by Rudyard Kipling for Kindle [2008]: "American Notes" [1891] and "Letters of Travel" [1899] Kindle Edition from Omnibus Select [7/2008] for $3.99 |
 | "The Essential Kipling Collection" for Kindle [2008]
contents unclear due to inferior code and mis-information on the low-integrity Amazon website; probable contents are "The Man Who Would Be King" [1888 novella]; "Plain Tales From The Hills" [1888]; "The Jungle Book" [1894]; "Captains Courageous" [1897 novel]; "Kim" [1901 novel]; "Puck of Pook's Hill" [1906]; "Rewards and Fairies" [1910]; plus several hundred short stories and ten illustrations 2730-page Kindle Edition from A1/Amazon [7/2008] for $1.99 |
 | "The Works of Rudyard Kipling (500+ Works)" for Kindle [2009] Amazon reviews may not be for this item; anyway, for the 99¢ price, it might be worth checking out. Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [11/2009] for 99¢ {sic} |
 | "The Reader's Classics Collection: Rudyard Kipling's Works For Children (In Chronological Order)" for Kindle [2012]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [11/2012] for $1.99 Illustrations by Arthur Rackham; five books included here are: "The Jungle Book [1894], "The Second Jungle Book" [1895], "Just So Stories" [1902], "Puck of Pook's Hill" [1906], and "Rewards and Fairies" [1910] |
 | "Rudyard Kipling's Collected Works" for Kindle [10/2013]
title should be 'Selected Works'; listed contents are nine books by Kipling: "The Story of The Gadsbys" [1888]; "Plain Tales From The Hills" [1888]; "Life's Handicap" [1891]; "Love-o'-Women" [1893]; "The Jungle Book" [1894]; "The Second Jungle Book" [1895]; "Captains Courageous" [1897 novel]; "Kim" [1901 novel]; and "Just So Stories" [1912] Kindle Edition from Seng Books [10/2013] for $1.99 |
 | "The Essential Rudyard Kipling" for Kindle [2015]
contains two novels, one novella, and five short story collections by Rudyard Kipling: "The Man Who Would Be King" [1888 novella]; "Plain Tales From The Hills" [1888]; "The Light That Failed" [1891]; "The Jungle Book" [1894]; "The Second Jungle Book" [1895]; "Captains Courageous" [1897 novel]; "Kim" [1901 novel]; and "Just So Stories" [1912] Kindle Edition from Titan Read [5/2015] for 99¢ |
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Works About Rudyard Kipling
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"Rudyard Kipling" narrative biography [orig 1915] by John Palmer
Kindle Edition from ... [9/00] for $0.00 PUB pb [8/00] for $0.00 Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [9/2010] for $28.76 out of print/used available as free online etext at Internet Archive |
"Kipling's Sussex" [orig 1921] by R. Thurston Hopkins
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"Rudyard Kipling" [orig 1921] by R. Thurston Hopkins
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"Rudyard Kipling: A Character Study - Life, Writings and Literary Landmarks" [1921] by Robert Thurston Hopkins
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"Rudyard Kipling's World" [orig 1925] by R. Thurston Hopkins
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"Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling" [5/1993] by Zohreh T. Sullivan
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"The Less Familiar Kipling, and Kiplingana [11/2009] by William James Clarke
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http://www.amazon.com/Un-roman-Rudyard-Kipling-French-ebook/dp/B00EOVSBKC/
"Night of The Long Knives" TV episode [1966] /tt0723762/ of Fox/ABC-TV series "The Time Tunnel"
 | "Rudyard Kipling and His World: A Pictorial Biography"[1975] by Kingsley Amis Scribner 9¼x7¼ pb [11/75] out of print/used Thames & Hudson 9¼x7½ hardcover [11/75] out of print/used |
 | "The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works" [1978] by Angus Wilson Penguin Books 7x5 pb [5/79] out of print/40+ used Viking Adult hardcover [3/78] out of print/60+ used |
 | "The Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling" [BR#3 = 1979] by Lawrence Block Bernie Rhodenbarr, Block's Greenwich Village bookseller who moonlights as a burglar, is hired to steal a long-lost Kipling manuscript; as usual, surprises include a dead body and a maze of twisted motives. Kindle Edition from HarperCollins e-books [10/2009] for $4.74 HarperTorch mass pb [3/2005] for $7.50 No Exit Press mass pb [9/90] out of print/used Pocket mass pb [4/82] out of print/used Dutton Adult 9½x6¼ hardcover [7/96] out of print/80+ used |
"Kipling" TV episode [1980] /tt0849383/
of the half-hour BBC-RAI-TFI series "Une Maison, une Histoire"
 | "Rudyard Kipling (Literary Lives Series)" [1986] by Kingsley Amis Thames & Hudson 9¼x7¼ hardcover [8/86] out of print/40+ used |
"Alien Nation" [Fox 1988] /tt0094631/
 | "The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling" [1999] by Harry Ricketts Pimlico UK 9¼x6 pb [1/2000] out of print/used Chatto & Windus UK 9½x6½ hardcover [1/99] out of print/used both this and the Ricketts bio just below display 448 pages, thus must be U.K. & U.S. editions |
 | "Rudyard Kipling" biography [1999] by Andrew Lycett
Phoenix/The Orion 8x5 pb [9/2000] out of print/used Trafalgar Square 9½x6½ hardcover [9/99] out of print/used |
 | "Rudyard Kipling: A Life" [2000] by Harry Ricketts
Da Capo Press 9¼x6 pb [3/2001] for $13.04 Carroll & Graf Publrs 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2000] out of print/60+ used both this and the Ricketts bio just above display 448 pages, thus must be U.K. & U.S. editions |
"Rudyard Kipling: Hell and Heroism" [7/2005] by William B. Dillingham
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"Kipling: A Remembrance Tale" TV biopic [2006] /tt1260939/
"My Boy Jack" TV movie [2007] /tt0851430/
http://www.amazon.com/Kipling-Abroad-Traffics-Discoveries-Brazil/dp/1848850727/ [2010]
 | "Man and Mason: Rudyard Kipling" biography [2011] by Richard Jaffa Kindle Edition from AuthorHouse [6/2011] for $9.39 AuthorHouse UK 8x5 pb [6/2011] for $16.31 |
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 at Bombay in British India; he died in 1936 at age 70 in London, U.K..
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"The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling, 1862-1939" []
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'Kipling's 'great love' Flo Garrard
L i n k s
The Kipling Society [est. 1927, online 1999] based in Essex, U.K.
The Kipling Society of Australia [est. 1933] {dead website 2015}
The Kipling Society of Australia new website (last update 2013)
Rudyard Kipling entry at Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling bibliography listing at Wikipedia
browse Rudyard Kipling Store {almost 300 titles} at Amazon
Rudyard Kipling credits [since 1910] at Internet Movie Database
credits [1939-2007] for 'Rudyard Kipling' character at Internet Movie Database
Kipling's {incomplete} Broadway stageplay credits [1903-13 & 1984] at Internet Broadway Database
Rudyard Kipling Restaurant & Bar {aka 'The Rud'}, 422 W. Oak Street in Louisville, Kentucky
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