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Kipling, Rudyard

Amis, Kingsley. Rudyard Kipling and his World. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975. Brief, illustrated biography looking at Kipling's background and how it affected his work.

Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Carrington, Charles Edward. Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work. Harmondsworth: Penguin, First official biography, much censored by Kipling's daughter but still providing most of the basic information on Kipling.

Green, Roger Lancelyn, ed. Kipling: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971. The critical reception from 1886 to 1936.

Gross, John, ed. Rudyard Kipling: The Man, His Work, and His World. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. Illustrated study with many useful contributions on Kipling's background, childhood, context, politics and Indian influence.

Hutchins, Francis G. The Illusion of Permanence: British Imperialism in India. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.

Hutchinson, Geoff. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936: An Introduction. London: G. Hutchinson, 1988. Very brief survey.

Keating, Peter John. Kipling the Poet. London: Secker and Warburg, 1994. Contends that Kipling's poetry was central to his life and art, and provides a focused interpretation and analysis of its impact.

Lord Birkenhead. Rudyard Kipling. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. Biography.

McClure. Conrad and Kipling: The Colonial Fiction. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1981. Important comparative study.

Orel, Harold. A Kipling Chronology. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1990. Diary-style account of Kipling's life and work.

Paffard, Mark. Kipling's Indian Fiction. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1981. Good brief account of the influence of India on Kipling's writing.

Parry, Ann. The Poetry of Rudyard Kipling. Rousing the Nation. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1992. Looks at the political aspect of his poems and their reception.

Pinney, Thomas. The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1990.

Rutherford, Andrew, ed. Kipling's Mind and Art. Oliver and Boyd, 1964. Includes a good essay by Mark Kinkead-Weekes called “Vision in Kipling's Novels“.

Said, Edward. Introduction to Penguin Modern Classics edition of Kim. London: Penguin, 1989. Excellent introduction to the issues of imperialism in the novel.

Seymour-Smith, Martin. Rudyard Kipling. London: Macdonald, 1989.

Stewart, J. I. M. Rudyard Kipling. London: Gollancz, 1966.

Sullivan. The Narrative of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Tompkins, J. M. S. The Art of Rudyard Kipling. London: Methuen, 1959. Classic account of Kipling's work.

Wilson, Angus. The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work. London: Secker and Warburg, 1977. Lively general biography with an interesting analysis of his writings and perceptive discussion of the individual poems.