Rudyard Kipling: A Life

by Harry Ricketts

Book Overview

This absorbing, widely praised biography brings a fresh and sympathetic eye to the career of the prolific writer whose popular Jungle Books and collections of poems like Barracks Room Ballads as well... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786707119
• ISBN13: 9780786707119
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Exceptional

Clearly the best Kipling biography in many years. Mr. Ricketts has a fine touch, especially for Kipling's early years. If his later life wasn't as exotic and interesting, that's Kipling's affair. I think the mainstream reviewers had it right ('Splendid,' said The Atlantic Monthly, 'irresistibly readable,' said The New Yorker). Insightful and engaging.