The Letters of Rudyard Kipling | The Letters of Rudyard Kipling

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Author: Rudyard Kipling
First Published: 1990
Type of Work: Letters
Time of Work: December, 1872-December, 1889; January, 1890-December, 1899
Setting: London and other locations in England; Lahore, Allahabad, Simla, and other locations in the Punjab, India; San Francisco and other locations in the United States; Toronto, Canada
Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
Subjects: Colonialism, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, England or English people, India or East Indian people, Letters, Morality or morals, Imperialism
Locales: London, England, San Francisco, CA, Toronto, Canada, India

Thomas Pinney’s meticulous edition of the Kipling letters is a welcome addition to previously published and ongoing collections of letters by other eminent Edwardians, among them Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats. In fact, the Kipling collection has appeared after the publication of notable Georgian letters, such as editions for James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, C. S. Lewis, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf.

One reason for the tardy publication of Kipling’s letters is that his correspondents were widely scattered across at least...

The Letters of Rudyard Kipling | The Letters of Rudyard Kipling

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