
Biography
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India, to a British family. When he was five years old, he was taken to England to begin his education, where he suffered deep feelings of abandonment and confusion after living a pampered lifestyle as a colonial. He returned to India at the age of seventeen to work as a journalist and editor for the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore. Kipling published his first collection of verse, Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, in 1886 and his first collection of stories, Plain Tales from the Hills, in 1888.
In the early 1890s some of his poems were published in William Ernest Henley’s National Observer and later collected in to Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), an immensely popular collection which contained “Gunga Din” and “Mandalay.” In 1892 Kipling married and moved to Vermont, where he published the two Jungle Books and began work on Kim. He returned to England with his family in 1896 and published another novel, Captains Courageous. Kipling visited South Africa during the Boer War, editing a newspaper there and writing the Just-So Stories. Kim, Kipling’s most successful novel (and his last), appeared in 1901. The Kipling family moved to Sussex permanently in 1902, and he devoted the rest of his life to writing poetry and short stories, including his most famous poem, “If—”. He died on January 18, 1936; his ashes are buried in Westminster Abbey.
Novels by Rudyard Kipling
Short stories by Rudyard Kipling
- .007
- “Bread Upon The Waters”
- “My Son’s Wife”
- “They”
- A Conference Of The Powers
- A Deal in Cotton
- A Germ Destroyer
- A Matter of Fact
- A Trip Across A Continent
- A Walking Delegate
- A Wayside Comedy
- An Error In The Fourth Dimension
- An Habitation Enforced
- An Unqualified Pilot
- As Easy As A.B.C.
- At Twenty-two
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- Below The Mill Dam
- Beyond The Pale
- Bitters Neat
- Black Jack
- By Word Of Mouth
- Consequences
- Cupid’s Arrows
- Dray Wara Yow Dee
- False Dawn
- Friendly Brook
- Garm – A Hostage
- Georgie Porgie
- His Majesty The King
- His Wedded Wife
- How the Alphabet Was Made
- How the Camel Got His Hump
- How the Leopard Got His Spots
- How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
- How the Whale Got His Throat
- In Flood Time
- In The Matter Of A Private
- In The Same Boat
- Judson And The Empire
- Little Foxes
- Love-o’-Women
- Mary Postgate
- Miss Youghal’s Sais
- My Own True Ghost Story
- Namgay Doola
- Of Those Called
- On The Strength Of A Likeness
- Pig
- Reingelder And The German Flag
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
- Steam Tactics
- The Army Of A Dream
- The Beginning of the Armadillos
- The Bonds Of Discipline
- The Butterfly that Stamped
- The Cat that Walked by Himself
- The Crab that Played with the Sea
- The Elephant’s Child
- The Man Who Was
- The Man Who Would be King
- The Phantom Rickshaw
- The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
- With The Night Mail: A Story Of 2000 A.D.
- Yoked With An Unbeliever
Poems by Rudyard Kipling
- “For All We Have And Are”
- “The Trade”
- “Tin Fish”
- A Death-Bed
- A Pict Song
- A Pilgrim’s Way
- An Almanac of Twelve Sports
- Cells
- Cities And Thrones And Powers
- Danny Deever
- Dedication
- Edgehill Fight
- Epitaphs of the War
- Fuzzy-wuzzy
- Gethsemane
- Gunga Din
- Harp Song of the Dane Women
- If—
- Justice
- Loot
- Mesopotamia
- My Boy Jack
- Recessional
- Screw-guns
- Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
- Soldier, Soldier
- Song of the Galley-Slaves
- The Answer
- The Ballad Of East And West
- The Bell Buoy
- The Benefactors
- The Cat that Walked By Himself
- The Children
- The City of Sleep
- The Disciple
- The Explanation
- The Female Of The Species
- The Gods Of The Copybook Headings
- The Legend Of Evil
- The Long Trail
- The Lost Legion
- The Miracles
- The Power Of The Dog
- The Secret of the Machines
- The Song of the Banjo
- The Song Of The Dead
- The Sons Of Martha
- The Vampire
- The Verdicts
- The White Man’s Burden
- To Wolcott Balestier
- Tommy
- When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted