Rudyard Kipling His Life and WorkPDF电子书下载

PREFACE 9

PREFACE TO THE PELICAN EDITION 11

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 13

CHRONOLOGY 15

A Fragment 17

PROLOGUE 19

GENEALOGY-KIPLINGS AND MACDONALDS 27

The Puzzler 29

1 KIPLINGS AND MACDONALDS 31

From The City of Sleep 39

2 CHILDHOOD：BOMBAY AND SOUTHSEA (1865-77) 41

From A School Song 53

3 PUBLIC SCHOOL (1878-82) 55

From The New Knighthood 77

4 LAHORE AND SIMLA (1882-7) 79

From Jobson＇s Amen 125

5 SIMLA AND ALLAHABAD (1887-9) 127

From The Song of the Banjo 161

6 A RETURN TO LONDON (1889) 163

From In the Neolithic Age 195

7 KIPLING IN LONDON (1890-91) 197

From The Miracles 219

8 KIPLING AND THE BALESTIERS (1891-2) 221

From The Fires 247

9 A HOME IN VERMONT (1892-6) 249

From The Second Voyage 295

10 AT TORQUAY (1896-7) 297

From A Song of the English 311

11 THE WHITE MAN＇S BURDEN (1897-8) 313

From Merrow Down 341

12 LAST VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES (1898-9) 343

From The Settler 357

13 THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR (1899-1902) 359

＇When ＇Omer smote ＇is blooming lyre＇ 391

14 KIPLING AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 393

From Sir Richard＇s Song 429

15 A HOME IN SUSSEX (1902-8) 431

From The Fabulists 457

16 AT ＇BATEMAN＇S＇(1908-14) 459

My Boy Jack 495

17 THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-18) 497

A Charm 521

18 AFTER THE WAR (1919-24) 523

The Storm Cone 537

19 THE LAST PHASE OF HIS WORK 539

Non Nobis Domine 557

20 THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE (1924-36) 559

EPILOGUE：Memoir by Mrs George Bambridge 587

SOURCES 598

NOTES 601

GENERAL INDEX 607

INDEX OF KIPLING＇S WORKS 629