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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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill

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Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of...
Rewards and Fairies

Rewards and Fairies

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Rewards and Fairies is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The title comes from the poem "Farewell, Rewards and Fairies" by Richard Corbet. The poem is referred to by the children in the first story of the preceding book Puck of Pook's Hill. Rewards and Fairies is set one year later chronologically although published four years afterwards. The book consists of a...
Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People

Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People

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Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People was published in 1891. Most of the stories had previously appeared in periodicals. Table of Contents: Preface The Lang Men o' Larut Reingelder and the German Flag The Wandering Jew Through the Fire The Finances of the Gods The Amir's Homily Jews in Shushan The Limitations of Pambe Serang Little Tobrah Bubbling Well Road "The City of...
Actions and Reactions

Actions and Reactions

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Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling Table of Contents: An Habitation Enforced The Recall Garm — A Hostage The Power of the Dog The Mother Hive The Bees and the Flies With the Night Mail The Four Angels A Deal in Cotton The New Knighthood The Puzzler The Puzzler Little Foxes Gallio’s Song The House Surgeon The Rabbi’s Song
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...
A Diversity of Creatures

A Diversity of Creatures

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A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling. Table of Contents As Easy as A.B.C. MacDonough’s Song Friendly Brook The Land In the Same Boat ‘Helen all Alone’ The Honours of War The Children The Dog Hervey The Comforters The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat The Press In The Presence Jobson’s Amen Regulus A Translation The Edge of the...
Sea Warfare

Sea Warfare

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Sea Warfare first appeared as a single publication in 1916 (Macmillan, London). The page and line numbers in these notes refer to that volume. However, its three component parts had appeared previously, both in Great Britain and the USA – the USA publications being primarily for copyright purposes. Sea Warfare was a compilation of a series of thirteen newspaper articles. Six were published...
American Notes

American Notes

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In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: "Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, 'the man who came from nowhere,' as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothing in the literary world." Six months previous to this Mr. Kipling, then but...
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...
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
A Song of the English

A Song of the English

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A Song of the English was collected in The Seven Seas, published simultaneously in London and the USA on 30 October 1896: London, Methuen & Co. New York, D. Appleton & Co.(In 1892/3, Kipling had instructed Appleton & Co to use English spelling for any of his work that they published.) A separate edition of the poem, including the six subsidiary poems, was published by Hodder and...
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 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...

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