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Kipling, Rudyard

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  1. An English author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kipling is known for his children's books such as The Jungle Book and Just So Stories; novels such as Kim and The Light That Failed; and poems such as “Gunga Din” and “The Road to Mandalay.” Some well-known lines from his works are “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet” (see also “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”) and “The female of the species is more deadly than the male.”


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Kipling, Rudyard: made hero an animal, 127;used prefatory beginning, 142.

From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Barrett, Charles Raymond

Kipling, Rudyard, on the attitude of the Bond 430, 434.

From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)

In the story of the Princess of Tronkolaine, 118, 119 Kipling, Rudyard.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis

Kipling, Rudyard, ii, 125, 253; his estimate of woman, vi, 74; quoted, ix, 292; x, 174; xii, 182; on R. L. Stevenson, xiii, 40.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Hubbard, Elbert

Kipling, Rudyard, The Light that Failed, 1, 307; mentioned, 2, 21, 22, 231.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William