This selection serves up the very best of Kipling’s stories on the politics of the Raj, besides offering a sampling of the entire range of his preoccupations, covering all the familiar themes associated with his writing, such as his interest in religious experiences and the supernatural, the healing powers of art, and his progressive portrayal of women.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rudyard Kipling
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) was a poet, novelist and short story writer. He was born in Bombay. After his schooling in England, he moved over to India in 1882, where he began his journalistic career with Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. By the time he returned to England in 1896, he had published many of his classic children/s stories that made him highly popular. In 1907 he was the first British author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Besides Just So Stories, some of his other best known books for children include The Jungle Book and Kim.
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