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Rudyard Kipling was born
in Bombay in 1865, and
after schooldays in England
returned to India for "seven
years' hard" as a journalist.
It was in 1888 that he first
revealed his stature as a
writer with a series of books
whose covers, to quote
H. G.Wells, "opened like window shutters to reveal the dusty
sun-glare and blazing colours of the East." From then on his
output became prolific, he travelled all over the world, and his
fame increased with each succeeding book. John Masefield has
credited him with "some of the best short stories ever written,"
and he will always be remembered as the author of one un-
doubted masterpiece, his full-length novel Kim, and of several
collections of much-loved and much-quoted verse, including
many beautiful poems reflecting his passion for the sights and
sounds of the English countryside, its people, its folklore, its
history. The public honours which were showered on him from
all over the world culminated in the...
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Fülszöveg
RU DYA R13
Rudyard Kipling was born
in Bombay in 1865, and
after schooldays in England
returned to India for "seven
years' hard" as a journalist.
It was in 1888 that he first
revealed his stature as a
writer with a series of books
whose covers, to quote
H. G.Wells, "opened like window shutters to reveal the dusty
sun-glare and blazing colours of the East." From then on his
output became prolific, he travelled all over the world, and his
fame increased with each succeeding book. John Masefield has
credited him with "some of the best short stories ever written,"
and he will always be remembered as the author of one un-
doubted masterpiece, his full-length novel Kim, and of several
collections of much-loved and much-quoted verse, including
many beautiful poems reflecting his passion for the sights and
sounds of the English countryside, its people, its folklore, its
history. The public honours which were showered on him from
all over the world culminated in the award of the coveted Nobel
Prize for Literature. Shortly after his death in 1936 and his
burial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, a biographer
said of him "No great writer was so near the hearts of his readers,
no great writer had been, perhaps, since Dickens." Indeed, his
work still enthralls readers of all ages wherever the English
language is spoken or understood.
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