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Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) sinh ngày 30.12.1865, tên đầy đủ là Joseph Rudyard Kipling, là một trong những nhà văn hàng đầu của nước Anh cuối thế kỷ 19 đầu thế kỷ 20 với sự nghiệp sáng tác đồ sộ, trong đó nổi bật nhất là truyện thiếu nhi.

Ông sinh tại thành phố Bombay, Ấn Độ, trong một gia đình trí thức người Anh. Năm lên sáu tuổi, ông được đưa về Anh học, tuổi thơ của ông nhìn chung là bất hạnh. Kipling trở lại Ấn Độ năm 1882, làm nghề báo. Ông đi đó đi đây, khắp Ấn Độ, rồi sang Mỹ, sang châu Phi, nhờ đó mà tích luỹ nhiều vốn sống cho các trang viết của mình sau này.

Kipling nổi tiếng trước hết là một nhà thơ. Sau khi Lord Tennyson qua đời vào năm 1892, có thể nói Kipling đã chiếm vị trí số một trong lòng công chúng yêu thơ nước Anh. Ông cũng là người viết truyện ngắn và tiểu thuyết lừng danh. Kipling được coi là một "nhà cách tân lớn trong nghệ thuật truyện ngắn", và các truyện thiếu nhi của ông được xếp vào hàng kinh điển. Ông là nhà văn viết bằng tiếng Anh đầu tiên được trao giải Nobel Văn chương (vào năm 1907) và cho đến nay vẫn là người trẻ nhất nhận được giải thưởng danh giá này.

Từ năm 1901, Rudyard Kipling định cư ở Anh và qua đời ngày 18 tháng 1 năm 1936 tại London.

Tác phẩm tiêu biểu

  • Departmental Ditties, 1886
  • The Man Who Would Be King, 1888
  • Sodiers Three, 1888
  • The Light That Failed, 1890
  • The Jungle Book, 1894 (đã xuất bản ở Việt Nam với tên Chuyện rừng xanh, NXB Hội Nhà Văn, 2013)
  • The Second Jungle Book, 1895 (đã xuất bản ở Việt Nam với tên Chuyện rừng xanh 2, NXB Hội Nhà Văn, 2013)
  • Captain Courageous, 1897
  • Kim, 1901
  • Just So Stories, 1902
The Light That Failed

The Light That Failed

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The Light That Failed is a novel by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter who goes blind. A 1903 Broadway play starring Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and his wife...
Plain Tales from the Hills

Plain Tales from the Hills

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Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the...
Indian Tales

Indian Tales

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Indian Tales (1890) - A collection of tales inspired by Kipling's days living and working in India.
Barrack Room Ballads

Barrack Room Ballads

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The Barrack-Room Ballads is the collective name given to a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy" and "Danny Deever", and helped consolidate his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in...
The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King

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The Man Who Would Be King (1888) is a novella by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo; and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who was granted the title Prince of...
How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest

How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest

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MR. KIPLING’S brilliant reconstruction of the genesis of the ‘Tempest’ may remind us how often that play has excited the creative fancy of its readers. It has given rise to many imitations, adaptations, and sequels. Fletcher copied its storm, its desert island, and its woman who had never seen a man. Suckling borrowed its spirits. Davenant and Dryden added a man who had never...
With the Night Mail

With the Night Mail

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"SHE: Do you like Kipling? HE: I don't know, I've never Kippled!" If you've never read Rudyard Kipling's science fiction, then you've never Kippled. Having achieved international fame with The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Kim, and his Just So Stories, in 1905 Kipling serialized a thrilling science fiction novella, With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D, in which the reader learns-while...
The Second Jungle Book

The Second Jungle Book

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The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles. The original book is now worth $3.4 million.
The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

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The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there...
Kim

Kim

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Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901. The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and...
Just So Stories

Just So Stories

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The Just So Stories for Little Children are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works. The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi (French for "why") or origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories...
Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

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Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a fishing boat in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition. The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree",...
Chuyện Rừng Xanh

Chuyện Rừng Xanh

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Với Chuyện rừng xanh, Kipling sẽ đưa người đọc đến với Mowgli - đứa bé con của loài người được bầy sói nuôi dạy, lớn lên thành Chúa Rừng, bạn của mọi loài thú, nói ngôn ngữ của chúng, hiểu và cảm thông với chúng. Qua những cuộc...

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