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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 Bridge-Builders

The Bridge-Builders

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The Bridge-Builders (1893) by the British writer Rudyard Kipling is an Indian story about the building of the "Kashi Bridge." The story mainly displays Kipling's mastery of the technical details and knowledge related to bridge building. His biographers agree that the author acquired this knowledge through interacting with British civil engineers who were assigned by the Crown to build numerous...
The Eyes of Asia

The Eyes of Asia

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The Eyes of Asia published in the U.S.A. in 1918, contains four letters purporting to be written to relations or friends at home in India by soldiers of the Indian Army (part of the normal British Forces in that country down to 1947) at the time of World War I, 1914-18. They were on active service in Europe and Africa, 1915-18. The articles forming The Eyes of Asia appeared in the American...
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...
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...
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...
The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

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The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (published 1888) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The Phantom 'Rickshaw After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the narrator, Jack, repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs. Wessington continually reappears in Jack's life, begging him to reconsider, insisting that it was...
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 Story of the Gadsbys

The Story of the Gadsbys

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The Story of the Gadsbys is a story by Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published as no. 2 of the Indian Railway Library in 1888. The Story of the Gadsbys is written in dramatic form, consisting of eight short scenes (listed below). This short pamphlet, of 100 pages, was later collected in book form as the second part of Soldiers Three. "Poor Dear Mamma" "The World Without" "The Tents of...
The Years Between

The Years Between

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The Years Between, a collection of poems written during the period from just after the Boer War till the aftermath of World War I, was originally published in 1919. It was the first volume of new poems by Kipling published since "The Five Nations" in 1903; including the first book appearance of Kipling's celebrated "The Female of the Species," with its awed refrain "The female of the species is...
Traffics and Discoveries

Traffics and Discoveries

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Traffics and Discoveries, containing 11 stories and 11 poems, was published in 1904. Table of Contents: From the Masjid-al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed (Wahabi) The Captive Poseidon's Law The Bonds of Discipline The Runners A Sahibs' War The Wet Litany "Their Lawful Occasions" The King's Task The Comprehension of Private Copper The Necessitarian Steam Tactics Kaspar's Song in...
Under the Deodars

Under the Deodars

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Under the Deodars (published 1888) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Table of Contents: The Education of Otis Yeere At the Pit's Mouth A Wayside Comedy The Hill of Illusion A Second-rate Woman Only a Subaltern In the Matter of a Private The Enlightenments of Pagett, M. P. External links
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...

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