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.

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'...with the accent on the writing and publishing history of Kipling's works, Mallett reveals new facets of his life and times... [Mallett's] enthusiasm for Kipling's work shines through the book, making it a thoroughly enjoyable read.' - The Kipling Journal

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PHILLIP MALLETT is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. His work on Kipling includes an edition of Limits and Renewals, as well as an edited collection of essays, Kipling Considered. He has also edited three collections of essays on Hardy, including Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts, in 2002.

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Book Title: Rudyard Kipling
Book Subtitle: A Literary Life
Authors: Phillip Mallett
Series Title: Literary Lives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403937759
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-55720-4Published: 24 June 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-55721-1Published: 18 June 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-3775-9Published: 18 June 2003
Series ISSN: 2946-2037
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2045
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 233
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature

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