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Rudyard Kipling: A Life

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This absorbing, widely praised biography brings a fresh and sympathetic eye to the career of the prolific writer whose popular Jungle Books and collections of poems like Barracks Room Ballads as well as the masterly novel Kim propelled him to the pinnacle of literary success before he was forty. With illuminative reinterpretations of his work, it also follows Kipling throu...more
Paperback, 448 pages
Published January 17th 2001 by Da Capo Press (first published March 2000)
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Ruby Hollyberry
May 21, 2010
Ruby Hollyberry rated it 5 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition
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So far, MUCH better than any of the other biographies of him I've found.
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