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"Readable and reliable . . . [Gilmour's] assessment of the political background of Kipling's writings is exemplary." --Earl L. Dachslager, Houston Chronicle
David Gilmour's superbly nuanced biography of Rudyard Kipling, now available in paperback, is the first to show how the great writer's life and work mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His great poem "Recessional" celebrated Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and his last poems warned of the dangers of Nazism, while Kipling himself, an icon of the empire, was transformed from an apostle of success to a prophet of national decline. As Gilmour makes clear, Kipling's mysterious and enduring works deeply influenced the way his readers saw both themselves and the British Empire, and they continue to challenge our own generation.
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"In his entertaining and sympathetic biography . . . Gilmour portrays Kipling in all his complexity . . . He quietly dismantles the caricature of Kipling as a two-dimensional Victorian chauvinist." --Alan Riding, The New York Times
"[Gilmour examines] Kipling's political consciousness . . . more deeply than any writer before him." --Gregory Feeley, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"[A] formidable study . . . [Gilmour] is superb as a historian and biographer." --Robert F. Moss, Los Angeles Times Book Review
While previous studies of Kipling have concentated on his writing and on his domestic life, this book studies his public role and his influence on the way Britons saw themselves and the Empire.
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication date2003
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- ISBN 13 9780374528966
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