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British · 1865-1936 · 16 quotes
British · 1865–1936
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Rudyard Kipling was the British-Indian writer who, between the 1880s and 1900s, produced The Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, Plain Tales from the Hills, and the poem If — works that made him the most popular English writer of his era and, in 1907, the first English-language author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Bombay in 1865, he was sent to England for schooling at six and returned to India as a journalist at sixteen. His work is saturated with the Anglo-Indian world he grew up in, and the political assumptions of that world have made his legacy contested. But the technical mastery — the ear for vernacular speech, the narrative compression, the formal range — is undiminished. He travels fastest who travels alone; a woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty: the aphorisms of someone who watched people under pressure and wrote down what they actually did.
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