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KIPLING, RUDYARD (1865-1936)

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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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The British writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India. India was part of the British Empire at the time. Kipling glorified the empire in many of his works, but he also wrote with sympathetic understanding about the people and stories of India.

Kipling was sent to England to be educated when he was only 6. At the age of 17, he returned to India and went to work as a newspaper reporter. He began to write the short stories that made him famous. Kipling was a brilliant, imaginative storyteller. He vividly described the excitement and atmosphere of the places in his ...

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