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I’ve started Debits and Credits by Rudyard Kipling and I’m impressed once again by Kipling’s storytelling power. Not to mention I’m at a loss as to why I haven’t heard more about this collection since it has some of his best writing. But then I’m only a few stories into the collection. We’ll see how […]
I found George Orwell’s essay on Rudyard Kipling recently. It appears Orwell was responding to a T.S. Eliot essay that prefaced selections of Kipling’s poetry as well as an essay by Edmund Wilson. While much of the review is about the poetry itself (Orwell’s take in a nutshell—third-rate, but a guilty pleasure that speaks to […]
A central post with all the links to Kim and other Kipling-related material: Kim discussion: Chapters 1 – 5 Kim discussion: Chapters 6 – 10 Kim discussion: Chapters 11 – 15 Kim (1950 movie) Online Kipling resources Kipling’s imperialism As with other summaries, this is also probably the best place to post thoughts on Kim […]
Before I leave Kipling and move on to other works, I wanted to try and articulate my feelings on Kipling’s imperialism. David Cody’s short entry at The Victorian Web does a good job of summing Kipling up as well as putting him in the context of his time. It is easy to dismiss Kipling because […]
I was pleasantly surprised for the first two-thirds of the movie that they followed Kipling’s novel in spirit, if not always faithfully. Dean Stockwell as the young Kim turns in an admirable job—it’s not a role I thought would translate to the screen very well. Errol Flynn’s role of Mahbub Ali was exaggerated in importance […]
A wonderful ending to an enjoyable book. I had gotten a little impatient with the middle section, feeling it was simply marking time. But there was important groundwork being laid that pays off handsomely. There are several different themes and things to talk about, so I’m sure I’ll do the book an injustice, but here […]
The middle third of the book covers Kim’s formal education as well as his extended informal learning. The book can be read solely as an adventure story, but some of the themes in the book add substantial depth. Kim’s reflection upon entering the school is worth noting: ’I am Kim. This is the great world, […]
The text for Kim can be found here. Kim is the coming of age story of a 13 year-old orphaned boy, whose father was a British soldier. Kim’s fortune was foretold by his father: The third [document left at Kim’s father’s death] was Kim’s birth-certificate. Those things, he was used to say, in his glorious […]
Project Gutenberg e-texts Wikipedia entry on Kilping The New Readers’ Guide to the works of Rudyard Kipling (created by The Kipling Society) The Victorian Website page on Kipling Most of these sites have additional links and resources listed, as well as several links to Kipling’s works online. There is a wealth of material available! The […]
Text can be found here.There is so much that can be written about with any book or short story, yet the hard part is choosing what to point out. While there are many more thoughts on the works I read, I’m trying to keep the posts relatively short compared to what I could cover. If […]