A beautiful new paperback edition of Rewards and Fairies, Rudyard Kipling's second magical collection of stories and poems.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in India, and spent the first
six years of his life there, acquiring Hindustani as a second
language and living in a bungalow like that in The Jungle Book. He
was then sent to a boarding house in England with his sister Alice,
where he had a miserable time until he was sent to The United
Services College at Westward Ho! in Devon, the model for Stalky &
Co. He left school at sixteen to return to India and work on The
Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, and his familiarity with all
classes of society provided him with material for Barrack Room
Ballads and Plain Tales from the Hills. In 1889 he returned to
England and in 1891 published his novel The Light That Failed, and
married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They
returned to her home Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote the
two Jungle Books and Captains Courageous. In 1896 the family
returned to England, where Kipling continued to write prolifically,
and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1907. His later years were darkened by the death of
his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915.
Kipling's long association with Macmillan began in 1891, with the
publication of Life's Handicap and continued with most of Kipling's
prose and children's works, available in multiple editions long
after his death in 1936.
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