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Joseph Rudyard Kipling - English writer and a poet, widely known for his works The Jungle Book and Kim, as well as numerous poems.
Kipling was born in Bombay on December 30, 1865. His father was an artist and professor at an art school. When Kipling was 5 years old, his parents decided to send him to an English private boarding school.
Already at a young age, Kipling began to write his first stories. At this time he was already studying at the Devon School. In 1883, the Civil Military Newspaper began publishing the writer’s works.
In the late 80s, Kipling worked as a reporter and decided to travel to the United States of America, along the way writing travel essays, which brought him considerable popularity.
In 1989, Rudyard Kipling published his first novel, The Light Went Out. During these years, he decides to settle in England, where he creates wonderful children's novels “The Jungle Book” and “The Second Jungle Book”.
After Kipling met Cecil Rhodes, who made a great impression on him, while in South Africa in 1899, he wrote one of his best novels, Kim. In Africa, meanwhile, the Anglo-Boer War is going on. The writer publishes a military newspaper while in the active army. He also sends reports about the war to England.
The writer is interested in politics and has an analytical and sharp mind. Thus, he suggests the possibility of war with Germany, and he turns out to be right.
In 1892, Kipling married Caroline Balestier. Soon they have two children - Josephine and John. But, unfortunately, the fate of the writer and his family was subjected to tragic blows. While still a child, the writer's daughter dies of pneumonia. And during the war with Germany, his son also died.
Until the 1930s, Kipling continued to write stories, but they were no longer as popular as his earlier works. After the war he traveled a lot. The writer dies in 1936 in London at the age of 70. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Rudyard Kipling made a significant contribution to the development English literature. His works are widely known to this day.
Biography 2
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. His father worked as a professor at an art school. Until the age of five, the writer lived with his younger sister in India, but then the children were sent to England, to a private boarding school. The couple who ran the boarding house treated the boy poorly and was often punished. All this had a strong influence on Rudyard. Later, his mother, having learned how badly her children were being treated, took them back to India, but not for long.
At the age of 12, the young writer enters a private school and prepares to enter the military academy. This period became a test for a boy with glasses and short stature. Training and education were built on strict discipline. It was here that the future writer formed as a person. But myopia did not allow Kipling to become a military man. The director of the school, an acquaintance of my father, encouraged young man passion for literature. And after college, Kipling, with the support of his father, became a journalist in India. While working as a reporter, the writer also publishes short stories and poems.
In 1888-1889, Kipling traveled around Asia, the USA and England, and his stories and poems were actively published. He decides to stay in England, publishes his first novel and meets the publisher W. Balestier. The young man dies of typhus, and Rudyard later marries the deceased's sister, Caroline. They lived for several years in Vermont (USA), and in 1894-1895 The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book were published. Afterwards, the writer and his family return to England.
Kipling had three children, two daughters and one son. In 1899, Josephine, his eldest daughter, died of pneumonia. It was a difficult time for the writer; he went to South Africa for a while and wrote the novel “Kim.” In the same year, the writer purchased a house in England. In this country house he writes the books "Puck of the Hills" and "Rewards and Fairies." Kipling begins to write on political topics. In 1915, the writer's only son, John, died in the war. His body was never found. For Rudyard this was a great tragedy. For four more years after that, he hoped that his son was still alive. In 2007, the film “My Boy Jack” was released, based on the story of the death of the writer’s son. Daughter Elsie lived a long life, the only one of the writer’s three children.
Kipling continued to write until his death, but his works enjoyed less and less success. In 1922, the writer travels around France and meets King George V of England, and a friendship develops between them. In 1936, Kipling died from a perforated ulcer. During his lifetime, due to an incorrect diagnosis, he was treated for gastritis. After the death of a writer, his works are rethought and given a second life.
“Tell me about the first six years of a child’s life, and I will tell you the rest,” Kipling remarked in his autobiographical book, Something About Myself for My Friends, Acquaintances and Strangers.
John Lockwood Kipling and Alice MacDonald met during a spring picnic on the shores of Lake Rudyard, near Birmingham. They named their son Rudyard, who was already born in Bombay, where J.L. Kipling went as a teacher art school. In colonial India, newlyweds soon acquired a house, a garden, a carriage and servants. The native servants thoroughly spoiled the children - Rudyard and his little sister Trix. So three-year-old Rudyard, brought by his mother to relatives, outraged these adherents of strict Victorian education to the core. The boy first turned everything upside down in the rooms, and then walked down the street shouting: “Everyone get out of the way, angry Ruddy is coming!”
Of course, when the time came to send the little Kiplings to England to be raised and educated, it turned out to be inconvenient to turn to relatives. The brother and sister were assigned to a boarding house with the Holloways, according to an advertisement, in the town of Southsea. Rudyard was just six years old. He barely endured the next six and then said that he would gladly burn down the Holloway house and sprinkle salt on the ashes.
The news of her son's illness prompted Alice Kipling to immediately come to Southsea, be horrified by what she saw and take the children from the boarding house. A few months later, Rudyard entered the United Service College, a military-type educational institution that trained officers and officials of the colonial service. After graduation, the young man returned to India, to Lahore: the position of assistant editor of the Civil and Military Newspaper awaited him.
In the newspaper, in addition to reports, interviews, and gossip columns, Kipling published many of his own stories. “This is the lot of creators - their demon lives in their feathers... My demon came to me early, at a moment of doubt, and said: “Do this and nothing else!” I obeyed and was rewarded."
« Simple stories from the Mountains" and "Department Songs" reached England, and the influential critic Andrew Lang exclaimed: "Eureka! A genius was born,” and a year later he explained to readers: “Kipling’s books had the unusualness, color, diversity and flavors of the East... It is not surprising that his literary reputation grew as quickly as the magician’s mysterious mango tree.”
Kipling arrived in England and presented the novel “The Light Went Out” to the public. Despite the fact that (or precisely because) the author’s inner world was defenselessly revealed here, as in no other work of his, the novel was received coolly by critics.
The second novel - if I may say so, an “Indian Western”, “Naulakha” - Kipling wrote together with a certain Walcott Balestier. The co-authors became friends, Kipling married Walcott's sister Caroline and soon settled with her in the USA, in the state of Vermont, in a house called “Naulakha”.
And then a happy accident led him to create the undeniable famous composition. Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge asked Kipling to write something about the Indian jungle for a children's magazine. He promised to try and wrote two “Jungle Books,” which were a huge success and caused, as Kipling himself used to say, “a whole zoo of imitations,” including “Tarzan.”
However, in America, fate was not merciful to Rudyard and Caroline for long. After a protracted and absurd quarrel with a relative and the death of their six-year-old daughter, Josephine, they decided to part with Naulakha and left for Europe.
With the beginning of the Boer War, public opinion about Kipling, a staunch defender of the imperial interests of Great Britain, was finally and irrevocably formed.
Finally, he began to live in England, where he bought an old house in Sussex. From this house - the Englishman's house - to the first world war he urged English youths to go and fight “for all that we have and for the future of our children.” His son John volunteered for the Irish Guards - and died. And in 1923, Rudyard Kipling published his study, The Irish Guards in the Great War.
Britain literally valued Kipling's every word as worth its weight in gold: he received incredibly generous fees - a shilling per word. When he died, the coffin, draped with the British flag, was carried by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Bernard Law Montgomery, later a field marshal. Literary and artistic figures did not consider it necessary (or possible) to come to the funeral, having long condemned Kipling as a “poet of the barracks,” “the bard of imperialism,” and a “literary hooligan.”
Debates about Rudyard Kipling continue today, and collections of his works traditionally end with the poem “A Request”, the last lines of which:
ASK ABOUT ME
ONLY MY BOOKS.
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WORKS OF R. KIPLING
COLLECTED WORKS: In 6 volumes - M.: Terra, 1996.
WORKS: In 3 volumes - M.: Raduga, 2000.
FAVORITES: [Novel; Stories; Poems]: Trans. from English / Intro. Art. N. Dyakonova and A. Dolinin. - L.: Artist. lit., 1980. - 535 p.
“The light went out” - the light of vision, the light of Art, the light of Love, the light of life itself - for Dick Heldar, artist, war correspondent, hero of the novel. “We are all living islands that shout lies to each other in the midst of an ocean of mutual misunderstanding,” he reflects at the behest of Kipling.
And, by the will of Kipling, the mule driver Magbub Ali in “The Ballad of the Royal Joke” reflects this way:
YOUR Humble SERVER DOG BOOTS: Stories / Transl. A.Ivanova and
A. Ustinova; Rice. A. Semenova. - M.: Publishing house named after. Sabashnikov, 1995. - 74 p.: ill.
This book is for young children, but will also delight adult readers. The story is told on behalf of the Scottish terrier Boots. For example: “After breakfast, Slippers and I have a cat-hunt-from-the-kitchen-all-over-the-garden-to-the-wall. We would continue to hunt for her. But she climbs onto the wall and sits there. And we sit under the wall, sing and wait for the Lords to go for a walk.”
KIM: Novel / [Trans. from English M. Klyagina-Kondratieva]; Preface, commentary Yu. Kagarlitsky. - M.: Higher. school, 1990. - 287 p.
“And I am a Sahib,” he looked sadly at his boots. - No. I'm Kim. Here great world, and I'm just Kim. Who is Kim?
But first, who is Sahib? In India - a gentleman, a European, even a “poor white of the poorest,” like Kim, for example. Who is Kim? An aspiring English spy and chela. Who is a chela? Young novice of the wandering lama. Who is Lama? Tibetan monk.
Teshu Lama and Kim wander through multi-colored, crowded India, not knowing in the evening what awaits them in the morning around the bend of the road and fate.
JUNGLE BOOKS: Trans. from English / Rice. A. Medvedev. - St. Petersburg: North-West, 1992. - 480 pp.: ill.
The stories of Mowgli, the man-cub of the Wolf Pack, and the fearless mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi are, of course, stories from The Jungle Books. But why did Kipling include stories about the White Cat from St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea and the Eskimo boy Kotuko in The Jungle Books? Maybe because the Treasured Words of all life on Earth: “We are of the same blood, you and I.”
MOWGL: A fairy tale / Abbr. lane from English N. Daruzes; Il. M. Miturich. - M.: Malysh, 1978. - 239 p.: ill.
In the first “Jungle Book” there are three stories about Mowgli, in the second there are five.
Mowgli, Little Frog, that’s what Mother Wolf called her pupil. And everyone who will love him and teach him the Laws of the Jungle - the leader of the Wolf Pack Akela, the brown bear Balu, the black panther Bagheera, the mountain boa constrictor Kaa - will call him this: Mowgli. There is no such word in any language in the world. It was invented by Kipling.
FROM SEA TO SEA / Per. from English V.N.Kondrakova; Entry Art. D.M. Urnova; Artist V.A. Kryuchkov. - M.: Mysl, 1983. - 239 p.: ill.
On March 9, 1889, the Little Pilgrim, that is, Rudyard Kipling (and he was, in fact, small in stature), set off from India to England along an unusual route: Calcutta - Burma - Singapore - China - Hong Kong - Japan - USA - Liverpool . For the Allahabad magazine "Pioneer" Kipling undertook to send weekly essays on his travel impressions.
BRAVE CAPTAINS: Fav. works / [Compiled, author. entry Art. and comment. A. Zverev]. - M.: Det. lit., 1991. - 398 pp.: ill.
A story written in America for the younger generation, “Brave Captains” is a very American story. Harvey Cheyne, the fifteen-year-old son of a multimillionaire, was washed overboard by a wave of an ocean liner. A boat from a fishing schooner picked up the boy, and the skipper took him on board as a cabin boy. While Harvey was being transformed, the schooner “went its ways and did its work... and days after days multiplied.”
PACK FROM THE MAGIC HILLS / Transl. from English Gr. Kruzhkova and M. Boroditskaya; Rice. S. Lyubaeva. - M.: TERRA, 1996. - 367 p.: ill.
GIFTS OF FAIRIES / Transl. from English Gr. Kruzhkova and M. Boroditskaya; Rice. S. Lyubaeva. - M.: TERRA, 1996. - 479 p.: ill.
Having settled in the coveted England, on the Elms estate, Kipling composed several stories based on ancient English legends and in 1906 he published a collection - “Puck from the Pooka Hills”, and in 1910 - a continuation: “Rewards and Fairies”. This Puck is the oldest of the Ancients, the last inhabitant of the hollow hills. His memory contains stories from two thousand years ago - when the Romans paved roads through the heathers, and in the dense forests the Picts hunted wild animals and prayed to their gods.
STORIES; POETRY; TALES / [Intro. Art. Yu.I.Kagarlitsky]. - M.: Higher. school, 1989. - 382 pp.: ill.
STORIES; POEMS / Comp., intro. Art. and note. A. Dolinina. - L.: Artist. lit., 1989. - 367 p.
“You see, mom, everyone usually writes on the outside, but this Kipling writes on the inside.” (A statement from one little reader that appeared on the pages of the Kipling Society magazine.) It is unlikely that the boy was right about “everyone” writing “from the outside,” but Kipling is undoubtedly one of those who writes “from the inside.” And it was like this all his life, starting with the story “The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows,” which he composed at the age of not quite nineteen.
TALES / Transl. from English K. Chukovsky; Poems in trans. S. Marshak; Rice. V. Kurdova. - L.: Det. lit., 1989. - 156 pp.: ill.
“Dear boy, I will again tell you a fairy tale about Distant and Ancient Times...”
“Baby Elephant”, “Where Armadillos Came From”, “The Cat Walking By Itself”, “The Moth That Stamped His Foot” - Kipling called them “Simply Fairy Tales”.
POEMS. - [In Russian. and English lang.]. - St. Petersburg: North-West, 1994. - 477 p.
In 1922, N.S. Gumilyov’s student Ada Onoshkovich-Yatsyna published a collection of her translations of R. Kipling’s poems. Since then, Kipling has found many heirs in Russian poetry: N. Tikhonov, V. Lugovskoy, E. Bagritsky, K. Simonov, A. Galich...
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LITERATURE ABOUT THE LIFE AND WORK OF R. KIPLING
Kipling R. Something about myself (Autobiography) // Kipling R. Treasured Islands. - M.: EKSMO-Press, 2001. - P. 261-371.
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Dolinin A. Rudyard Kipling, short story writer and poet // R. Kipling. Stories; Poems. - L.: Artist. lit., 1989. - pp. 5-16.
Dymshits V. Rudyard Kipling // Kipling R. Poems. - St. Petersburg: North-West, 1994. - P. 5-23.
Kagarlitsky Yu. Rudyard Kipling // Kipling R. Stories; Poetry; Fairy tales. - M.: Higher. school, 1989. - P. 3-52.
Kuprin A. Rediard Kipling // Kuprin A. Collection. cit.: In 9 volumes: T. 9. - M.: Pravda, 1964. - P. 478-483.
Peremyshlev E. “The Mason Was and I am the King...” // Kipling R. The Jungle Book; Poems and ballads. - M.: AST: Olympus, 2001. - P. 5-23.
SCREEN ADAPTATIONS OF R. KIPLING'S WORKS
- ART FILMS -
The jungle book. Dir. Z. Korda. Comp. M.Rozha. USA, 1942.
The jungle book. Dir. S. Sommers. Comp. B. Poledouris. USA, 1994. Starring: J. Scott Lee, C. Elvis, L. Heady and others.
Little elephant driver. Dir. R. Flaherty, Z. Korda. USA, 1937.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Dir. A. Zguridi. Comp. A. Schnittke. USSR-India, 1976. Cast: A. Batalov, M. Terekhova and others.
The light turned off. Dir. W. Wellman. USA, 1940.
The man who wanted to become king. Dir. J.Houston. Comp. M. Jarre. Great Britain, 1975. Cast: S. Connery, M. Kane, K. Plummer and others.
- CARTOONS -
Hedgehog plus turtle: [Based on the fairy tale by R. Kipling “Where Armadillos Come From”]. Dir. I. Ufimtsev. USSR, 1981.
How the first letter was written. M/f puppet. USSR, Kiev Faculty of Popular Science. films, 1984.
The jungle book. USA.
A cat that walked by itself. USSR, 1988.
Mowgli. Dir. R. Davydov. Comp. S. Gubaidulina. USSR, 1973.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. THE USSR.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Dir. O. Wells. USA.
The famous English writer Rudyard Kipling is more familiar to us as a children's author who told the story of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. Many of us read his “The Jungle Book” as children. However, Kipling was a controversial figure, and he did not limit himself to stories for children. It is known that the writer had a difficult fate: difficult experiences in childhood, then the early death of his daughter and son. However, Kipling remains a controversial figure due to his support for British imperialism. His poem "Burden" white man"has become a symbol of Eurocentric racism. At the same time, Kipling became the youngest laureate Nobel Prize on literature. So let's find out some details from his life.
The boy was named after Lake Rudyard in England
The parents of the future writer met near this lake. Rudyard was born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay, British India, the first child of John Lockwood Kipling and his wife Alice. His father was a school teacher, taught art, and was a museum curator in India. Rudyard had younger sister named Trix. The early years, which passed in exotic India, were very happy for the future writer.
He described the terrible years of his childhood in his story "By-ah, by-ah, Black Sheep"
After spending your early years in Bombay, 5-year-old Rudyard was sent to England with his sister Trix, where they lived in foster family, in Southsea, next 6 years. The private boarding house Lorne Lodge was run by a married couple. They treated the children poorly, often punishing them unfairly. This affected the boy so much that Rudyard suffered from insomnia for the rest of his life. Kipling later described the horrors of his time in foster care in his 1888 semi-autobiographical short story "Bah, Bang, Black Sheep."
While working as a journalist in India, Kipling began writing poetry and fairy tales. In 1886, he published his first cycle, “Departmental Ditties,” and in 1888, his first collection of short stories, “Simple Stories from the Mountains,” was published. India clearly inspired the writer; most of his works were written in this exotic place. In 1889, Kipling left India and went to live in London.
Kipling married Caroline Balestier, the sister of an American publisher
In London, Rudyard Kipling met Walcott Balestier, American writer and publisher. They became friends and began working together. Kipling later married his sister. The couple moved to the United States and settled in Vermont. The couple had three children: two daughters and a son.
Kipling was the highest paid writer in the world
By 1890, Kipling was recognized as one of the most exciting writers of his time, and his reputation continued to grow with the publication of works such as The Jungle Book and Kim. By 1897, Rudyard Kipling was not only one of the most famous authors, but also the highest paid writer in the world.
Two of his three children died at an early age
Daughter Josephine died of pneumonia while still a child. Kipling was devastated by the tragedy. But soon he lost his son too. During World War I, Kipling's son John wanted to join the British military, but was turned away due to poor eyesight. Rudyard used his connections to get the young man accepted into the Irish Guards as a second lieutenant. John Kipling was killed in battle at the age of 18, and Rudyard mourned the loss of his second child.
George Orwell called Kipling "the prophet of British imperialism"
His poem "The White Man's Burden" justifies imperialism by presenting it as a noble enterprise. This work by Kipling has become a symbol of Eurocentric racism. Kipling also opposed Irish nationalism and wrote that before the arrival of the English in 1169, the Irish were a band of bandits living in savagery and killing each other. The famous English writer George Orwell did not share Kipling’s views, calling the writer “the prophet of British imperialism.”
He and his sister lived in the Lorne Lodge boarding house and attended school in Southsea.
In 1878 he entered the United Services College at Westward Howe, north of Devon.
He published a home newspaper, for which he wrote poems and parodies.
In 1881, his mother, secretly from her son, published a collection of school poems in Lahore ("Poems of a Schoolchild").
In 1882, Rudyard returned to India and found work as an assistant editor at a Lahore newspaper. In 1887, Kipling moved to the Pioneer newspaper in Allahabad.
In 1886, he published a book of poems, Department Songs. It was followed by "Simple Tales from the Mountains" (1888). His best stories were published in India in cheap editions and were later collected in the books Three Soldiers and Wee-Willy-Winky.
In 1889, Kipling traveled the world and wrote travel notes. In October he arrived in London and almost immediately became a celebrity.
In 1990, his “Ballads of East and West” and “Songs of the Barracks” were published, created in a new style of English versification.
Kipling's first novel, "The Light Has Gone Out" (1890), appeared in two versions - one with happy ending, the other - with the tragic.
Due to overwork, the writer's health declined, and he spent most of 1891 traveling around America and the British dominions. Returning to America in January 1892, Kipling married the sister of the American publisher Walcott Balestier, with whom he co-authored the novel Naulanka (1892).
In the spring of 1891, he purchased a piece of land from his wife's brother north of Brattleboro, Vermont, and built a large house, which was named "Naulaha."
During the four years he lived in America, Kipling wrote his best works - stories included in the collections "A Mass of Fiction" (1893) and "Work of the Day" (1898), poems about ships, the sea and pioneer sailors, collected in the book "Seven seas" (1896).
In 1894, his famous stories about the life of the human cub Mowgli among animals, included in the “Jungle Book,” were written; in 1895, “The Second Jungle Book” was created.
In 1896, Kipling wrote the book The Brave Mariners. At the age of 32, Kipling became the highest paid writer in the world.
In 1896 he returned to England.
In 1899, during the Boer War (1899-1902), Kipling created so-called “gun clubs” throughout the country. At the end of the year, he became a war correspondent for the military newspaper Friend, published in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
In 1900-1908, on the advice of doctors, the writer spent winters in South Africa.
In 1901, Kipling published the novel "Kim", in 1902 - "Simply Tales" with drawings by the author.
In 1902, having sold Naulaha, the Kiplings moved to Bateman's Mansion (Bairwash, Sussex).
By the middle of the writer’s life, his literary style changed - he began to write slowly, carefully, carefully checking what he wrote. Two books of historical stories, “Puck from Puka Hill” (1906) and “Rewards and Fairies” (1910), are characterized by a higher structure of feelings; some of the poems reach the level of pure poetry. Kipling continued to write stories collected in the books Ways and Discoveries (1904), Action and Reaction (1909), All Kinds of Creatures (1917), Incomes and Expenses (1926), and The Boundaries of Renewal (1932). ).
In 1919, The Complete Poems of Rudyard Kipling was published, reprinted in 1921, 1927, 1933.
In 1922, Kipling became rector of St Andrew's University.
The work of the writer and poet was awarded various awards, many of which he often refused, preferring to remain independent. In 1899 he renounced the Order of the Bath, second class, in 1903 - the knighthood and the Orders of St. Michael and St. George, in 1921 and 1924 - the Order of Honor.
In 1907, Kipling became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Honorary doctorates from the University of Cambridge (1908), the University of Edinburgh (1920), the Sorbonne (1921) and the University of Strasbourg (1921).
In 1924 he received an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Athens.
Since 1886, Kipling was a member of the Masonic lodge.
Since 1897 - an honorary member of the London Athenaeum Club.
In 1933, Kipling was diagnosed with a duodenal ulcer. On January 12, 1936, on his way to Cannes for treatment, the writer ended up in London's Middlesex Hospital, where he underwent surgery on the night of January 13.
On January 18, 1936, Rudyard Kipling died in London from peritonitis that developed after surgery. His ashes were buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
In 1937, Kipling's autobiography "A Little About Myself. For My Friends - Acquaintances and Strangers" - was published posthumously.
In 1937-1939, the complete, so-called “Sussex” collected works of Rudyard Kipling were published in 35 volumes.
Kipling had three children from his marriage to Caroline Balestier. Daughter Josephine (1893-1999) died early from pneumonia, son George, born in 1897, died in France in the First World War. Second daughter Elsie, born in 1896, died childless in 1976.
The material was prepared based on information from open sources
Rudyard Kipling- English writer, poet and short story writer. His the best works“The Jungle Book” (about Mowgli), “Kim”, as well as numerous poems are considered.
Kipling was the first Briton to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
Over the next 6 years, Rudyard Kipling and his sister lived in a boarding house, where the boy was treated very poorly. The teacher was so strict and domineering that she repeatedly beat Kipling and intimidated him in every possible way.
Rudyard Kipling as a child As a result, this seriously affected his future biography. From the time of his studies until the end of his days, Kipling would suffer from insomnia.
When a couple of years later the mother came to visit the children, she was shocked appearance son.
He was intimidated and almost blinded due to nervous experiences. In this regard, the mother decided to take the children from the boarding house and return back to India.
Next educational institution Rudyard Kipling became the Devon School, whose director was a friend of their family. An interesting fact is that it was he who instilled in the young man a love for.
During this biography, Kipling became seriously interested in reading books. When he was 12 years old he started wearing glasses.
Despite the severity and ignorance of the people around him, Rudyard was able to bravely endure all the trials and successfully graduate from college after 5 years.
Over time, the young man admitted that he was not something bad for the child, but on the contrary, he helped him develop good manners and qualities.
Due to poor eyesight Rudyard Kipling failed to continue military career. However, this did not upset him at all. Instead, he took up writing.
When his father read some of his stories, he realized that his son had talent and helped him get a job as a journalist in a newspaper.
Rudyard Kipling with his father Soon a significant event occurred in Kipling's biography. He was accepted into the Masonic lodge, which would play a significant role in his life.
Creative biography of Kipling
One of Kipling's first works was “School Lyrics”. Three years later, his collection “Echoes” was published, in which he imitated famous poets and experimented with style.
In the 80s he worked as a reporter, and in free time composes poetry and writes stories. Many of them are published in newspapers.
Having worked as a journalist for 7 years, Rudyard Kipling accumulated invaluable writing experience.
He repeatedly witnessed many interesting and often dangerous situations, and was also able to observe the behavior of people belonging to different social strata of society.
All this helped him in the future in bright colors convey images of your heroes.
Kipling strived to write short but meaningful stories. Interestingly, he did his best to keep his stories to no more than 1,200 words. It was in this style that the work “Simple Stories from the Mountains” was written.
After some time, the publication where Kipling worked invited him to write a series of stories about different states. He gladly accepted this offer and began to study with interest the culture of the peoples of Asia and America.
Inspired by this success, Kipling sets off on a trip to North America.
Personal life
In 1892, Rudyard Kipling married Caroline Baylsir, who was the sister of his good friend.
After the wedding, the newlyweds went on a trip, but soon they received unpleasant news. It turned out that the bank in which Rudyard kept his money went bankrupt.
Rudyard Kipling and his wife Caroline As a result, they barely had enough money to return home. However, this sad event in Kipling’s biography did not break him.
Thanks to his gift for writing and tireless work, he was able to again earn the amount of money that allowed him to support his family in complete prosperity.
In marriage, Rudyard Kipling had three children: girls Josephine and Elsie, and a boy John. The writer loved his children to death and composed fairy tales just for them.
Against the background of a happy family life In Kipling's biography, a misfortune occurred: his eldest daughter died of pneumonia, which came as a real shock to Kipling.
Soon his son, who participated in the First World War (1914-1918), also died. The tragedy with his son was further aggravated by the fact that John's body was not found.
As a result, of Kipling’s three children, only his daughter Elsie survived, and lived a long life.
Death
Since 1915, Kipling suffered from gastritis, but it later turned out that he actually had a stomach ulcer.
Rudyard Kipling died on January 18, 1936, aged 70. The cause of his death was a perforated ulcer.
Kipling's body was cremated and his ashes were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. An interesting fact is that another great English writer is buried next to him.
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