Traffics and Discoveries

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

Traffics and Discoveries, originally written in 1904, is a collection of 24 short stories by celebrated novelist and storyteller Rudyard Kipling. These charming tales feature a variety of colorful characters in exotic settings, much in the same vein as the Just So Stories and The Jungle Book. Any fan of classic Victorian and children's literature will delight in these beautifully spun stories of strange people and faraway places. British author and poet RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) was born in colonial India, a locale that inspired his best-known works, The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and Gunga Din (1892). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783752304725
Publisher:	Bod Third Party Titles
Publication date:	07/19/2020
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet and novelist. 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". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.