Rudyard Kipling

The English journalist, short story writer, poet and novelist, Rudyard Kipling, is usually remembered as the advocate of British imperialism through his short stories and poems about Britsh soldiers in India. He also wrote several tales for kids including The Jungle Book.
By winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, he became the first author, writing in English, to ever receive it.

Classics

If—

Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can ... [+]

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United Kingdom 19th Century 20th Century 4 min

The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo

Rudyard Kipling

NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different Animal with four short legs. He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on an outcrop in the middle of ... [+]

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United Kingdom 19th Century 20th Century 1 min

Christmas in India

Rudyard Kipling

Dim dawn behind the tamerisks, the sky is saffron-yellow,
As the women in the village grind the corn,
And the parrots seek the riverside, each calling to his fellow
That the Day, the staring ... [+]