Equally adept at humor writing, tales for children, and adventure stories, Rudyard Kipling holds a singular place in the pantheon of great English writers. This book celebrates the Nobel Prize winner’s multifaceted achievements and, with 80 full-color illustrations, underscores the variety and breadth of his printed production. An introductory essay by David Alan Richards, whose extensive Kipling collection is among the finest in the world, traces the challenges and joys of building a Kipling bibliography. Thomas Pinney, emeritus professor of English at Pomona College, contributes an essay on how collecting Kipling reflects the writer’s literary status.
The book is organized chronologically, beginning with Kipling’s birth in India in 1865 and extending to movies, plays, and new editions of his works that have appeared since his death in 1936. The selected items create a time line of his life and popular works, including The Jungle Books and The Just So Stories. Admirers of Kipling’s genius and lovers of literature in general will appreciate this rare glimpse into his extraordinary world.

Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind

Literature & Fiction

Richards, David Alan

Literary

Beinecke Rare Book Library

Knives and pillows flying

Sub Rosa Press

First edition. This volume describes in detail the letters written by Rudyard Kipling to his Indian publishers regarding their publication of his first two books, Departmental Ditties and Plain Tales from the Hills. The previously unpublished correspondence is accompanied by an informative introduction, scholarly notes and a bibliography of his books published by Thacker, Spink and Co. With twelve black-and-white illustrations and an index. viii, 92 pages with 6 leaves of illustrations. cloth. 8vo..

Kipling and His First Publisher: Correspondence of Rudyard Kipling With Thacker, Spink

Pinney, Thomas

Kipling., Rudyard

Essays & Correspondence

Oak Knoll Pr

Secret societies have fundamentally shaped America’s cultural and political landscapes. The bonds made through the most elite of secret societies have won members Pulitzer Prizes, governorships, and even presidencies. At the apex of these institutions stands Yale University and its rumored twenty-six secret societies. Tracing a history that has intrigued for centuries, attracting the attention of such luminaries as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Skulls and Keys traces the history of Yale’s societies as they set the foundation for America’s future secret clubs and helped define the modern age of politics.But there is a progressive side to Yale’s secret societies that we rarely hear about, one that, in the cultural tumult of the nineteen-sixties, resulted in the election of people of color, women, and gay men. It’s a side that is often overlooked in favor of sensational legends of blood oaths and conspiracies. Dave Richards, an alum of Yale, sheds some light on the lesser known stories of Yale’s secret societies. He takes us through the history from Phi Beta Kappa in the American Revolution (originally a social and drinking society) through Skull and Bones and its rivals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Skulls and Keys

History

Americas

Pegasus Books

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