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Born in December 30, 1865 / Died in January 18, 1936 / India / English

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POETRY

  • Schoolboy Lyrics, privately printed, 1881.
  • (With sister, Beatrice Kipling) Echoes: By Two Writers, Civil and Military Gazette Press (Lahore), 1884.
  • Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1886, 2nd edition, enlarged, Thacker, Spink (Calcutta), 1886, 3rd edition, further enlarged, 1888, 4th edition, still further enlarged, W. Thacker (London), 1890, deluxe edition, 1898.
  • Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (contains the fifty poems of the fourth edition of Departmental Ditties and Other Verses and seventeen new poems later published as Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads), United States Book Co., 1890, revised edition published as Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Doubleday McClure, 1899.
  • Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Macmillan, 1892, new edition, with additional poems, 1893, published as The Complete Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling, edited by Charles Carrington, Methuen, 1973, reprint published as Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses, White Rose Press, 1987.
  • The Rhyme of True Thomas, D. Appleton, 1894.
  • The Seven Seas, D. Appleton, 1896, reprinted, Longwood Publishing Group, 1978.
  • Recessional (Victorian ode in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee), M. F. Mansfield, 1897.
  • Mandalay, drawings by Blanche McManus, M. F. Mansfield, 1898, reprinted, Doubleday, Page, 1921.
  • The Betrothed, drawings by McManus, M. F. Mansfield and A. Wessells, 1899.
  • Poems, Ballads, and Other Verses, illustrations by V. Searles, H. M. Caldwell, 1899.
  • Belts, A. Grosset, 1899.
  • Cruisers, Doubleday McClure, 1899.
  • The Reformer, Doubleday, Page, 1901.
  • The Lesson, Doubleday, Page, 1901.
  • The Five Nations, Doubleday, Page, 1903.
  • The Muse among the Motors, Doubleday, Page, 1904.
  • The Sons of Martha, Doubleday, Page, 1907.
  • The City of Brass, Doubleday, Page, 1909.
  • Cuckoo Song, Doubleday, Page, 1909.
  • A Patrol Song, Doubleday, Page, 1909.
  • A Song of the English, illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, Doubleday, Page, 1909.
  • If, Doubleday, Page, 1910, reprinted, Doubleday, 1959.
  • The Declaration of London, Doubleday, Page, 1911.
  • The Spies' March, Doubleday, Page, 1911.
  • Three Poems (contains The River's Tale, The Roman Centurion Speaks, and The Pirates in England), Doubleday, Page, 1911.
  • Songs from Books, Doubleday, Page, 1912.
  • An Unrecorded Trial, Doubleday, Page, 1913.
  • For All We Have and Are, Methuen, 1914.
  • The Children's Song, Macmillan, 1914.
  • A Nativity, Doubleday, Page, 1917.
  • A Pilgrim's Way, Doubleday, Page, 1918.
  • The Supports, Doubleday, Page, 1919.
  • The Years Between, Doubleday, Page, 1919.
  • The Gods of the Copybook Headings, Doubleday, Page, 1919, reprinted, 1921.
  • The Scholars, Doubleday, Page, 1919.
  • Great-Heart, Doubleday, Page, 1919.
  • Danny Deever, Doubleday, Page, 1921.
  • The King's Pilgrimage, Doubleday, Page, 1922.
  • Chartres Windows, Doubleday, Page, 1925.
  • A Choice of Songs, Doubleday, Page, 1925.
  • Sea and Sussex, with an introductory poem by the author and illustrations by Donald Maxwell, Doubleday, Page, 1926.
  • A Rector's Memory, Doubleday, Page, 1926.
  • Supplication of the Black Aberdeen, illustrations by G. L. Stampa, Doubleday, Doran, 1929.
  • The Church That Was at Antioch, Doubleday, Doran, 1929.
  • The Tender Achilles, Doubleday, Doran, 1929.
  • Unprofessional, Doubleday, Page, 1930.
  • The Day of the Dead, Doubleday, Doran, 1930.
  • Neighbours, Doubleday, Doran, 1932.
  • The Storm Cone, Doubleday, Doran, 1932.
  • His Apologies, illustrations by Cecil Aldin, Doubleday, Doran, 1932.
  • The Fox Meditates, Doubleday, Doran, 1933.
  • To the Companions, Doubleday, Doran, 1933.
  • Bonfires on the Ice, Doubleday, Doran, 1933.
  • Our Lady of the Sackcloth, Doubleday, Doran, 1935.
  • Hymn of the Breaking Strain, Doubleday, Doran, 1935.
  • Doctors, The Waster, The Flight, Cain and Abel, [and] The Appeal, Doubleday, Doran, 1939.
  • A Choice of Kipling's Verse, selected and introduced by T. S. Eliot, Faber, 1941, Scribner, 1943.
  • B.E.L., Doubleday, Doran, 1944.
  • Poems of Rudyard Kipling, Avenel, 1995.

SHORT STORIES

  • In Black and White, A. H. Wheeler (Allahabad), 1888, 1st American edition, Lovell, 1890.
  • Plain Tales from the Hills, Thacker, Spink, 1888 , 2nd edition, revised, 1889, 1st English edition, revised, Macmillan, 1890, 1st American edition, revised, Doubleday McClure, 1899, reprint edited by H. R. Woudhuysen, Penguin, 1987.
  • The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, A. H. Wheeler, 1888, revised edition, 1890, reprinted, Hurst, 1901.
  • The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale With No Plot, A. H. Wheeler, 1888, 1st American edition, Lovell, 1890.
  • Soldiers Three: A Collection of Stories Setting Forth Certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd, A. H. Wheeler, 1888, 1st American edition, revised, Lovell, 1890, reprinted, Belmont, 1962.
  • Under the Deodars, A. H. Wheeler, 1888, 1st American edition, enlarged, Lovell, 1890.
  • The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories, with a biographical and critical sketch by Andrew Lang, Harper, 1890, reprinted, Books for Libraries, 1971.
  • His Private Honour, Macmillan, 1891.
  • The Smith Administration, A. H. Wheeler, 1891.
  • Mine Own People, introduction by Henry James, United States Book Co., 1891.
  • Many Inventions, D. Appleton, 1893, reprinted, Macmillan, 1982.
  • Mulvaney Stories, 1897, reprinted, Books for Libraries, 1971.
  • The Day's Work, Doubleday McClure, 1898, reprinted, Books for Libraries, 1971, reprinted with introduction by Constantine Phipps, Penguin, 1988.
  • The Drums of the Fore and Aft, illustrations by L. J. Bridgman, Brentano's, 1898.
  • The Man Who Would Be King, Brentano's, 1898.
  • Black Jack, F. T. Neely, 1899.
  • Without Benefit of Clergy, Doubleday McClure, 1899.
  • The Brushwood Boy, illustrations by Orson Lowell, Doubleday & McClure, 1899, reprinted, with illustrations by F. H. Townsend, Doubleday, Page, 1907.
  • Railway Reform in Great Britain, Doubleday, Page, 1901.
  • Traffics and Discoveries, Doubleday, Page, 1904, reprinted, Penguin, 1987.
  • They, Scribner, 1904.
  • Abaft the Funnel, Doubleday, Page, 1909.
  • Actions and Reactions, Doubleday, Page, 1909.
  • A Diversity of Creatures, Doubleday, Page, 1917, reprinted, Macmillan, 1966, reprinted, Penguin, 1994.
  • "The Finest Story in the World" and Other Stories, Little Leather Library, 1918.
  • Debits and Credits, Doubleday, Page, 1926, reprinted, Macmillan, 1965.
  • Thy Servant a Dog, Told by Boots, illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse, Doubleday, Doran, 1930.
  • Beauty Spots, Doubleday, Doran, 1931.
  • Limits and Renewals, Doubleday, Doran, 1932.
  • The Pleasure Cruise, Doubleday, Doran, 1933.
  • Collected Dog Stories, illustrations by Kirmse, Doubleday, Doran, 1934.
  • Ham and the Porcupine, Doubleday, Doran, 1935.
  • Teem: A Treasure-Hunter, Doubleday, Doran, 1935.
  • The Maltese Cat: A Polo Game of the 'Nineties, illustrations by Lionel Edwards, Doubleday, Doran, 1936.
  • "Thy Servant a Dog" and Other Dog Stories, illustrations by G. L. Stampa, Macmillan, 1938, reprinted, 1982.
  • Their Lawful Occasions, White Rose Press, 1987.
  • John Brunner Presents Kipling's Science Fiction: Stories, T. Doherty Associates (New York, NY), 1992.
  • John Brunner Presents Kipling's Fantasy: Stories, T. Doherty Associates (New York, NY), 1992.
  • The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Stories, Dover, 1994.
  • The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling, Carol, 1994.
  • Collected Stories, edited by John Brunner, Knopf, 1994.
  • The Works of Rudyard Kipling, Longmeadow Press, 1995.
  • The Haunting of Holmescraft, Books of Wonder (New York, NY), 1998.
  • The Mark of the Beast, and Other Horror Tales, Dover Publications (Mineola, NY), 2000.
  • The Metaphysical Kipling, Aeon (Mamaroneck, NY), 2000.
  • L. L. Owens, Tales of Rudyard Kipling: Retold Timeless Classics, Perfection Learning (Logan, IA), 2000.
  • Craig Raine, editor and author of introduction, Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling, Modern Library (New York, NY), 2002.

NOVELS

  • The Light That Failed, J. B. Lippincott, 1891, revised edition, Macmillan, 1891, reprinted, Penguin, 1988.
  • (With Wolcott Balestier) The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, Macmillan, 1892, reprinted, Doubleday, Page, 1925.
  • Kim, illustrations by father, J. Lockwood Kipling, Doubleday, Page, 1901, new edition, with illustrations by Stuart Tresilian, Macmillan, 1958, reprinted, with introduction by Alan Sandison, Oxford University Press, 1987.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

  • "Wee Willie Winkie" and Other Child Stories, A. H. Wheeler, 1888, 1st American edition, Lovell, 1890, reprinted, Penguin, 1988.
  • The Jungle Book (short stories and poems; also see below), illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny, Macmillan, 1894, adapted and abridged by Anne L. Nelan, with illustrations by Earl Thollander, Fearon, 1967 , reprinted, with illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling and Drake, Macmillan, 1982, adapted by G. C. Barrett, with illustrations by Don Daily, Courage Books, 1994, reprinted, with illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg, Grosset Dunlap, 1995, reprinted, with illustrations by Kurt Wiese, Knopf, 1994.
  • The Second Jungle Book (short stories and poems), illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling, Century Co., 1895, reprinted, Macmillan, 1982.
  • "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks, Century Co., 1897, abridged edition, illustrated by Rafaello Busoni, Hart Publishing, 1960, reprinted, with an afterword by C. A. Bodelsen, New American Library, 1981, reprinted, Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Stalky Co. (short stories), Doubleday McClure, 1899, reprinted, Bantam, 1985, new and abridged edition, Pendulum Press, 1977.
  • Just So Stories for Little Children (short stories and poems), illustrations by the author, Doubleday, Page, 1902, reprinted, Silver Burdett, 1986, revised edition, edited by Lisa Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1995, reprinted, with illustrations by Barry Moser, Books of Wonder, 1996.
  • Puck of Pook's Hill (short stories and poems), Doubleday, 1906, reprinted, New American Library, 1988.
  • Rewards and Fairies (short stories and poems), illustrations by Frank Craig, Doubleday, Page, 1910, revised edition, with illustrations by Charles E. Brock, Macmillan, 1926, reprinted, Penguin, 1988.
  • Toomai of the Elephants, Macmillan, 1937.
  • The Miracle of Purun Bhagat, Creative Education, 1985.
  • Gunga Din, Harcourt, 1987.
  • Mowgli Stories from "The Jungle Book," illustrated by Thea Kliros, Dover, 1994.
  • The Elephant's Child, illustrated by John A. Rowe, North-South Books, 1995.
  • The Beginning of the Armadillos, illustrated by John A. Rowe, North-South Books, 1995.
  • Thomas Pinney, editor and author of introduction, The Jungle Play, Allen Lane/Penguin Press (New York, NY), 2000.
  • How the Camel Got His Hump, North-South Books (New York, NY), 2001.
  • The Classic Tale of the Jungle Book: A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Story, Courage Books (Philadelphia, PA), 2003.

TRAVEL WRITINGS

  • Letters of Marque (also see below), A. H. Wheeler, 1891.
  • American Notes, M. J. Ivers, 1891, reprinted, Ayer Co., 1974, revised edition published as American Notes: Rudyard Kipling's West, University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.
  • From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, two volumes, Doubleday & McClure, 1899, published as one volume, Doubleday, Page, 1909, reprinted, 1925.
  • Letters to the Family: Notes on a Recent Trip to Canada, Macmillan of Canada, 1908.
  • Letters of Travel, 1892-1913, Doubleday, Page, 1920.
  • Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, Macmillan (London), 1923, published as Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls, Doubleday, Page, 1923.
  • Souvenirs of France, Macmillan, 1933.
  • Brazilian Sketches, Doubleday, Doran, 1940.
  • Letters from Japan, edited with an introduction and notes by Donald Richie and Yoshimori Harashima, Kenkyusha, 1962.

NAVAL AND MILITARY WRITINGS

  • A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips With the Channel Squadron, Macmillan, 1899.
  • The Army of a Dream, Doubleday, Page, 1904, reprinted, White Rose Press, 1987.
  • The New Army, Doubleday, Page, 1914.
  • The Fringes of the Fleet, Doubleday, Page, 1915.
  • France at War: On the Frontier of Civilization, Doubleday, Page, 1915.
  • Sea Warfare, Macmillan, 1916, Doubleday, Page, 1917.
  • Tales of "The Trade," Doubleday, Page, 1916.
  • The Eyes of Asia, Doubleday, Page, 1918.
  • The Irish Guards, Doubleday, Page, 1918.
  • The Graves of the Fallen, Imperial War Graves Commission, 1919.
  • The Feet of the Young Men, photographs by Lewis R. Freeman, Doubleday, Page, 1920.
  • The Irish Guards in the Great War: Edited and Compiled from Their Diaries and Papers, two volumes, Doubleday, Page, 1923, Volume I: The First Battalion, Volume II: The Second Battalion and Appendices.

OTHER

  • The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places (articles; also see below), A. H. Wheeler, 1891.
  • Out of India: Things I Saw, and Failed to See, in Certain Days and Nights at Jeypore and Elsewhere (includes The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places and Letters of Marque), Dillingham, 1895.
  • (With Charles R. L. Fletcher) A History of England, Doubleday, Page, 1911, published as Kipling's Pocket History of England, with illustrations by Henry Ford, Greenwich, 1983.
  • How Shakespeare Came to Write "The Tempest," introduction by Ashley H. Thorndike, Dramatic Museum of Columbia University, 1916.
  • London Town: November 11, 1918-1923, Doubleday, Page, 1923.
  • The Art of Fiction, J. A. Allen, 1926.
  • A Book of Words: Selections from Speeches and Addresses Delivered between 1906 and 1927, Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
  • Mary Kingsley, Doubleday, Doran, 1932.
  • Proofs of Holy Writ, Doubleday, Doran, 1934.
  • Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown (autobiography), Doubleday, Doran, 1937, reprinted, Penguin Classics, 1989.
  • Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship, edited by Morton Cohen, Hutchinson, 1965.
  • The Portable Kipling, edited by Irving Howe, Viking, 1982.
  • "O Beloved Kids": Rudyard Kipling's Letters to His Children, selected and edited by Elliot L. Gilbert, Harcourt, 1984.
  • The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Vols. 1-3, edited by Thomas Pinney, University of Iowa Press (Iowa City, IA), 1990.
  • Writings of Literature by Rudyard Kipling, edited by Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Writings on Writing, edited by Kemp and Lewis, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Also author of The Harbor Watch (one-act play; unpublished), 1913, and The Return of Imray (play; unpublished), 1914. Many of Kipling's works first appeared in periodicals, including four Anglo-Indian newspapers, the Civil and Military Gazette, the Pioneer, Pioneer News, Week's News; the Scots Observer and its successor, the National Observer; London Morning Post, the London Times, the English Illustrated Magazine, Macmillan's Magazine, McClure's Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, Spectator, Atlantic, Ladies' Home Journal, and Harper's Weekly. The recently discovered short story "Scylla and Charybdis" was published in the Spring, 2004 issue of the Kipling Society Journal. His works are collected in more than one hundred omnibus volumes. Collections of his papers may be found in many libraries, including the Houghton Library at Harvard University, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and the Pierpoint Morgan Library.