Rewards and Fairies
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet who began writing in India and shortly found his work celebrated in England. An extravagantly popular, but critically polarizing, figure even in his own lifetime, the author wrote several books for adults and children that have become classics, Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous and others. Although taken to task by some critics for his frequently imperialistic stance, the author’s best work rises above his era’s politics. Kipling refused offers of both knighthood and the position of Poet Laureate, but was the first English author to receive the Nobel prize.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The stories in here are a lot darker than in Puck of Pook's Hill. Plague and death are the straightforward bits - there's also lifelong illness, losing your place in society, politics and what they force one to ask - the lightest stories are Brother Squaretoes and The Conversion of Brother Wilfrid, which merely deal with keeping faith with oneself. My favorite, though, is The Wrong Thing - one more Hal O' the Draft story, with a truth to it I've run into myself - your best work and what you get rewarded for may have nothing in common. Deep, but not dark - though it did feature a years-long grudge and a threat of imminent death. I wouldn't think a year's change in the children's age would have made them ready to hear this, and in fact there are a lot of mentions of them looking blank or seizing on some minor point and clearly missing things. Good stories, though, overall.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This and Puck of Pook's Hill are two of my all-time favorite books, and probably contribiuted to my being a scholar of English history. As an adult, I can see occasional biases and inaccuracies, but the stories are still wonderfully vivid depictions of historical figures as real people.