The Return of the Buffalo Herd, painted by Edward and Charles Detmold, hangs at Bateman's in East Sussex in honor of the book's 130th anniversary. National Trust Images / James Dobson An original ...

Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author of one of the best-known children’s books of all time had a house in Vermont that’s open for tours this month. British ...

Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most beloved poem in Great ...

Anupama Chandrasekhar's adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic stories, directed by Indhu Rubasingham, is the National ...

It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. —George Orwell, 1942 My childhood home did not boast many literary ...

When the first World War broke out in August 1914, Rudyard Kipling felt horribly vindicated. The poet of Empire believed Britain's army was pitifully small for the continental war he had warned was ...

The Man Who Would Be King follows two former British soldiers. They were played by Sean Connery and Michael Caine, who travel to a remote region of Afghanistan. There, local tribes mistake one of them ...

After his only son was killed in action, grief-stricken Rudyard Kipling created poetic epitaphs for soldiers lost in the horrific battles of World War I. During World War I, more than 880,000 men ...

Noel Malcolm is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Earlier in his career he was foreign editor of The Spectator, and chief political columnist of The Telegraph. He has published books about the ...

Two original watercolour illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, long thought lost, have been rediscovered and will be offered in Roseberys' Old Master, British & European Pictures ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling, a writer sometimes described as the poet of empire. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard ...