Rudyard Kipling

This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the dea... » 

This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him. «