Adventures with Google Books Rudyard Kipling (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

What can you say about Kipling? Hmm, let’s see. “If you don’t have a copy of ‘If’ on the wall of your child’s room you should be investigated by Child Protective Services.” “All Civilized Men read Kipling.” A bit over the top? Hmm. Well, Kipling is at least mildly controversial. Some people call him an apologist for British Colonialism and Imperialism. Some call him a racist for poems like “The White Man’s Burden”. Other’s will maintain that he was not a great poet and that his poetry is mere populist doggerel. I have come to have some sympathy for those who dislike Kipling preparing this booklet. It became apparent to me that Kipling was infernally popular in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. His short stories were not just included in literature books for school children to read as examples of good writing, entire text books were written which contained nothing but Kipling. Books of his quotations for reading a new Kipling quote every day of the year were published and ran into multiple editions. His books were not just widely published. Every scrap from his pen was published in multiple editions by multiple publishing houses on both sides of the Atlantic at the same time. This has made compiling this list of what is available for free a painful process. It has led me to sympathize with those who resented Kipling at the time. Being subjected to this flood, this inundation, this tsunami of Kipling must have been a painful experience for those who lived through it. Kipling was real enough so that he appealed to real people. . He wrote poetry which was popular and interesting and readable when poetry was going out of style. He wrote short stories with Hemingwayesque thrift of expression before Hemingway. He was exotic and fun. He was patriotic enough to appeal to patriots and conservatives. He was critical enough of political corruption and human failings to appeal to reformers and moralizers. He was not a revolutionary and a strong moral compass shows through his writings. This made him appeal to ‘good’ people who felt good about shoving him down the throats of innocent children and other innocent bystanders they encountered during the day. It is this last quality, probably more than any other which has led to his loss of accredited popularity today. Kipling’s characters are still all around us. They show up on television, in movie theatre’s, and popular media all the time. They are not always associated with Kipling. This is a guide to the Kipling which is available for free on Google Books.