Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author of one of the best-known children’s books of all time had a house in Vermont that’s open for tours this month. British ...

Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most beloved poem in Great ...

It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. —George Orwell, 1942 My childhood home did not boast many literary ...

When the first World War broke out in August 1914, Rudyard Kipling felt horribly vindicated. The poet of Empire believed Britain's army was pitifully small for the continental war he had warned was ...

Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in "If" to "keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you" are regularly ...

The Man Who Would Be King follows two former British soldiers. They were played by Sean Connery and Michael Caine, who travel to a remote region of Afghanistan. There, local tribes mistake one of them ...

One of the great joys of life, as many parents can attest, is reading to one’s children. Entered upon with imaginative openness and sensitivity, and provided the book is good, this shared experience ...

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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling, a writer sometimes described as the poet of empire. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard ...

Two original watercolour illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, long thought lost, have been rediscovered and will be offered in Roseberys' Old Master, British & European Pictures ...