The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

by David Gilmour

Book Overview

A major new biography of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a unique figure in British history, a great writer as well as an imperial icon whose life trajectory matched that of the British Empire from its zenith to its final decades. Kipling was in his early twenties when his first stories about Anglo-Indian life vaulted him into celebrity. He went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize, and to add more phrases to the language than any man...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374187029
• ISBN13: 9780374187026
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"