Kipling

Name: Kipling
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Alberto Manguel
ISBN: 9781778750038

Author: Alberto Manguel

Narrator: William Merryn Hill

Unabridged: 2 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Bayeux Arts

Published: 06/27/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Historical Biography, Children's Nonfiction, Biographical

Synopsis

This brief biography of Rudyard Kipling is an ideal introduction, for young and old alike, to the fascinating life and works of one of the finest writers 0f the last hundred years.

About Alberto Manguel

Internationally acclaimed as an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, and editor, Alberto Manguel is the bestselling author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading. He was born in Buenos Aires, moved to Canada in 1982, and now lives in France, where he was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marjorie on April 23, 2025

Reading some of Kipling's work in this book reminded me that I knew the poems but had not realized they were by Kipling. His life was filled with, interests, friends, family, travel, and grief, the loss of 2 of their 3 children, an abusive childhood for a few years. However the world opened for him......more