A Diversity of Creatures

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

In 1917 Kipling joined the War Graves Commission. He published A Diversity of Creatures, a collection of stories mainly written before the outbreak of war, but including two "tales of '15", one of which ("Mary Postgate") has been seen as among the most important of his late stories. Kipling also published in newspapers a series of war articles about the Italian-Austrian front, The War in the Mountains.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was not yet 25 when he burst onto the literary scene in London, where his stories of Anglo-Indian life made him an instant celebrity. He won the Nobel Prize in 1907. Born in India in 1865 to an upper-class military family, he spent his early years in Britain and India and achieved his initial success as a reporter in India. He traveled widely and visited the U.S. a number of times, eventually building a house in Vermont. A restless wanderer, he ultimately settled in Sussex, only to have his world tumble into ruins with the death of his son in World War I.

Kipling is revered for his adult and children's stories and poems, but much of his life and writings is largely unknown in the United States. Witty, profound, wildly funny, acerbic and occasionally savage, Rudyard Kipling's writings continue to delight readers of all ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783962725860
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	10/17/2018
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	262
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling; (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature, and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". (Wikipedia)

Table of Contents

	As Easy as A.B.C.	3
	MacDonough's Song	45
	Friendly Brook	47
	The Land	65
	In the Same Boat	71
	'Helen all Alone'	104
	The Honours of War	107
	The Children	131
	The Dog Hervey	133
	The Comforters	160
	The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat	163
	The Press	216
	In the Presence	219
	Jobson's Amen	239
	Regulus	241
	A Translation	273
	The Edge of the Evening	275
	Rebirth	300
	The Horse Marines	303
	The Legend of Mirth	330
	'My Son's Wife'	335
	The Floods	379
	The Fabulists	381
	The Vortex	383
	The Song of Seven Cities	405
	'Swept and Garnished'	409
	Mary Postgate	421
	The Beginnings	443