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Kipling

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Kip·ling  (kplng), (Joseph) Rudyard 1865-1936.
British writer whose major works, including the short story "The Man Who Would Be King" (1889), a collection of children's stories, The Jungle Book (1894), and the novel Kim (1901), are set in British-occupied India. He won the 1907 Nobel Prize for literature.

Kipling [ˈkɪplɪŋ]
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(Biographies / Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936) M, English, WRITING: poet, WRITING: short-story writer, WRITING: novelist) (Joseph) Rudyard (ˈrʌdjəd). 1865-1936, English poet, short-story writer, and novelist, born in India. His works include Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895), Stalky and Co. (1899), Kim (1901), and the Just So Stories (1902): Nobel prize for literature 1907
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Noun1.Kipling - English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)Kipling - English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)


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Has the British soldier, one wonders, yet discovered Rudyard Kipling, or is the Wessex peasant aware of Thomas Hardy?
Though no more Old English than the works of Kipling, it had selected its reminiscences so adroitly that her criticism was lulled, and the guests whom it was nourishing for imperial purposes bore the outer semblance of Parson Adams or Tom Jones.
 
 
 
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