A little about yourself: Redjard Kipling

In that memoir prose of the Nobel Prize laureate, an outstanding representative of English neuromantic Rediaard Kipling (1865-1936), his autobiographical story “A little about my friends, acquaintances and strangers” is included, which is first published in Russian, and his travel book “From the Sea to the Sea”. Glory came to the writer when he was only twenty -five years old, they said that since Byron in England they did not remember such a sudden and early success. He owes his worldwide fame to the poetic collections of “Songs of the Barracks”, “Seven Seas” and “Five Nations”, “Light Gavelous”. And of course, fairy tales for children are a “jungle book”. Kipling was born in the family of an Englishman who served in India, received education in England, traveled a lot. Victorian England and the Colonial India, the Anglo -Burian War, the New World, Japan … The West and East under the poet’s pen are not symbolic antipodes, but real, filled with a beating of life and notes.

Author
Kipling Redyard Joseph
Editor
Nikolaevskaya A. G.
Artist
Vinogradova S.
Publisher
Vagrius, 2003
Series
My 20th century