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Rudyard Kipling (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Rudyard Kipling is best known for his short stories. His Just So Stories (1902), The Jungle Book (1894), and The Second Jungle Book (1895), are favorites with children and are among the most widely read collections of stories in the world. His novel Kim (1901) also ranks among the world’s most popular books. Kipling’s fiction, however, presents a critic with most of the problems that his verse presents, making it difficult to discuss one without the other. The fiction is often thought to be barbaric in content and...

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