Rudyard Kipling
Born
in Bombay, India
December 30, 1865
Died
January 18, 1936
Genre
Influences
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The Jungle Book
4713 editions
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published
1894
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The Jungle Books
494 editions
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published
1895
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Just So Stories
2550 editions
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published
1902
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Kim
2514 editions
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published
1901
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Captains Courageous
35 editions
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published
1897
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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published
1894
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The Man Who Would Be King
25 editions
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published
1888
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
187 editions
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published
1894
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The Second Jungle Book
1379 editions
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published
1894
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Puck of Pook's Hill
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730 editions
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1906
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“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
― Many Inventions
― Many Inventions
Polls
New School Classic April 2022 Group Read
Blindness by José Saramago, 1995, 326 pages
Island by Aldous Huxley, 1962, 354 pages
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1902, 210 pages
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, 1930, 320 pages
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, 1975, 233 pages
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1988, 204 pages
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards, 1981, 394 pages
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