Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865- January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. This is a fascinating selection of Kipling's most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The … The tales are arranged in the order he wrote them, and the later ones are generally better than his earlier attempts. Alice (one of the four noted MacDonald sisters) was a vivacious woman, of whom Lord Dufferin would say, "Dullness and Mrs Kipling cannot exist in the same room." Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy by Neil Gaiman and Rudyard Kipling (2008, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Analysis of Rudyard Kipling’s Stories By Nasrullah Mambrol on May 27, 2020 • ( 0). Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to Alice Kipling (née MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling. A good collection of Kipling's short stories - not necessarily horror, but certainly different from what most people associate him with. Life's Handicap reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunted destinies. He is best known for the children's story If" (1895), and his many short stories. His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936 was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Many of Rudyard Kipling’s earliest short stories are set in the India of his early childhood years in Bombay and his newspaper days in Lahore. The intervening years at school in England had perhaps increased his sensitivity to the exotic Indian locale and British imperial presence. Returning to the horror story genre again and again during the first 20 years of his literary career, Rudyard Kipling produced a substantial body of work in the genre. "Life's Handicap" reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunted destinies. When one is considering writers involved in the creation of ghost stories, supernatural fiction and tales of horror, Rudyard Kipling – the author of The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories – does not immediately spring to mind. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. 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