Rudyard Kipling
Born
in Bombay, India
December 30, 1865
Died
January 18, 1936
Genre
Influences
The Jungle Book
4695 editions
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published
1894
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The Jungle Books
2 editions
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published
1895
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Just So Stories
2536 editions
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published
1902
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Kim
378 editions
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published
1901
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Captains Courageous
2341 editions
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published
1897
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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published
1894
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The Man Who Would Be King
1151 editions
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published
1888
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
196 editions
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published
1894
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The Second Jungle Book
1382 editions
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published
1894
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Puck of Pook's Hill
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478 editions
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published
1906
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“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
― Many Inventions
― Many Inventions
Polls
April 2016 Old School Classic Poll
1869, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages
1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 438 pages
1895, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 310 pages
1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages
1897, Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, 161 pages
1721, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 339 pages
1844, Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas, 542 pages
1778, Evelina by Fanny Burney, 455 pages
1891, Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf, 368 pages
1877, Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev, 355 pages
1871, The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 132 pages
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