Rudyard Kipling — a remark

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“Your choice is practically illimitable, for the literature of our England is strewn from end to end with a prodigality that almost frightens one.”

Celebrating the extraordinary breadth of the literary inheritance available to readers. · Speech, The Uses of Reading, 1912

About Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

30 December 1865–18 January 1936

Rudyard Kipling was born Joseph Rudyard Kipling on December 30, 1865, in the bustling colonial port of Bombay, British India, a city that would forever pulse through his veins like the monsoon rains and the clamor of its streets. He died on January 18, 1936, in London, England, at the age of seventy, his body laid to…

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