Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling
“Charles Allen prefers to focus exclusively on the glory years preceding Kipling's final return to England in 1900, at age 35, and on the vital Indian experience that provided the raw material for so many of his best-loved works, including theJungle Bookshort-story collections and the novelKim. The book offers a vivid and fully rounded picture of the emotional and physical context of Kipling's apprenticeship as a writer. engaging and colorful.” (Wall Street Journal)