fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If-- (1910).He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Later in life Kipling came to be recognized as a "prophet of British imperialism." Many saw prejudice and
One of the most memorable English writers of all time Family of Joseph Rudyard Kipling Mother Alice MacDonald Kipling Father John Lockwood Kipling Sister Alice Kipling Fleming Early Life 30 December 1865 in Bombay, in British India Captain and Mrs. Holloway - Lorne Lodge Paradise at Aunt Georgie's and her husband 1878 - admitted to the United Services College Bombay in 1865 Travels & First writings 1883 - visited Simla thirty-nine stories appeared in the Gazette included in Plain Tales from the Hills Kipling's first prose collection 1887 Allahabad in the United Provinces published six collections of short stories
· Chamber Music (1907 poems) · Giacomo Joyce (written 1907, published 1968) · Dubliners (1914) · A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) · Exiles (1918 play) · Ulysses (1922) · Pomes Penyeach (1927 poems) · Collected Poems(1936 poems) · Finnegans Wake (1939) · Giacomo Joyce (1968 poems) · James Joyce's Letters to Sylvia Beach, 1921-1940 (1987) Joseph Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in Bombay, British India, and best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906); his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), "If--" (1910) and "Ulster 1912" (1912); and his many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be
* 1901- Kim was published * 1902- Just so stories * Stories of different animals' origin * Illustrations by himself * 1907- awarded the nobel prize for literature * Was extremely popular in England- colonial ideas, supported the English rule in colonies * The right of the strong * In 1915- visited the front as a reporter * Lost his son in WWI * Died in 1936, buried in the poets' corner "Kim" Rudyard Kipling * Died of a hemorrhage (internal bleeding) * Was written in 1901 * Spy novel * About orphaned son of an Irish soldier and his adventures * Takes place at the time of The Great Game * Kimball "Kim" O'hara- Spy courier mainly for Mahbub Ali * Kimball - "Chela" of Teshoo Lama, clever and charmful * Teshoo Lama - a Tibetan Lama on a spiritual journey, spiritual teacher of Kim, religious and smart * Mahbub Ali- horsetrader and spy for the British, good friend of Kim , clever and selfish
The practice was initially not very successful; while waiting for patients, he again began writing stories. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor, Joseph Bell. Future short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the English Strand Magazine. Interestingly, Rudyard Kipling congratulated Conan Doyle on his success, asking "Could this be my old friend, Dr. Joe?" Sherlock Holmes, however, was even more closely modelled after the famous Edgar Allan Poe character, C. Auguste Dupin. While living in Southsea he played football for an amateur side (that disbanded in 1894), Portsmouth Association Football Club. (This club had no connection with the Portsmouth F.C. of today.) In 1885, he married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie", who suffered from
He received the Nobel Prize in literature. Joseph Conrad · Joseph Conrad (18571924) was a British novelist and short-story writer. His eventful years as a ship's officer in Asian, African, and Latin American waters gave an exotic angle to many of his novels. He was a central figure in the development of literary modernism. His major works are Lord Jim(1900), Heart of darkness (1902),Nostromo (1904),The Secret Agent (1907), and Chance (1914). Rudyard Kipling · Rudyard Kipling (18651936) was a British writer. His Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses (1892), which includes the poems "If" and "Gunga Din", is a classic text of British colonialist literature. He has wrote novels like The Light that failed and Kim.He wrote many children's stories, including The Jungle Book (1894), the Just So Stories(1902), and Puck of Pook`s Hill(1906). Kipling was the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature (1907).
The making of a new nation. The Enlightenment in America. The emergence of the notion of the American Dream. The great Enlighteners: Crèvecoeur, Jefferson, Paine, Franklin. The American Enlightenment is the intellectual thriving period in the United States in the midtolate 18th century (17151789), especially as it relates to American Revolution on the one hand and the European Enlightenment on the other. Influenced by the scientific revolution of the 17th century and the humanist period during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment took scientific reasoning and applied it to human nature, society, and religion. American Enlightenment a gradual but powerful awakening that established the ideals of democracy, liberty, and religious tolerance in the people of America. If there were just one development that directly caused the American Revolution and uplifted the intellectual culture of the continent while it was only a British colony, it would be the American Enlightenment. Broadly
American literature The literary history of this nation when the first humanbeing living in what has since become the U.S used language creatively. · Mid to late 18 century put down · Words are powerful, magical · Words must be remembered · Native Americans stories creation of the world · Attidude thought their land/language · Similar stories Dates and names · America was discovered in 1492 by Columbus · 1497 John Cabot went to Canada · 1579 San Fransisco/St. Fransis · 1607 Jamestown collony/John Smith · 1620 a boat called MayFlower · 1630 Boston was established · 1636 Harvard University · 1773 Boston Teaparty · 1775 War of Independence · 1776 4 July Declaration of Independence · First President George Washington Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus (1451
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