Early 20th Century Illustrated Volume Set, Selected Works of Rudyard Kipling - 3 Books

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Title: Selected Works of Rudyard Kipling.
Author: Rudyard Kipling.
Origin: New York, NY.
Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son.
Publication date: … Read more Title: Selected Works of Rudyard Kipling.
Author: Rudyard Kipling.
Origin: New York, NY.
Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son.
Publication date: N.D. (circa 1910).

Works:
V1; In Black and White - The Story of the Gadsbys - The Phantom 'Rickshaw -Wee Willie Winkie.
V2; The Light That Failed - Plain Tales From the Hills.
V3; Mine Own People - The Courting of Dinah Shadd - American Notes - Under the Deodars - Departmental Ditties - Barrack-Room Ballads.

Description: 1423 Pp. (V1; 468 p. V2; 456 p. V3; 499 p.). 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers, gilt title stamped on spine covers, blind stamp ruled boards, illustrated text.

Measures: 1.5 (4.25 overall) W x 5.5 D x 8.75 H inches.

About the author: Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." See less