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Empire of the Imagination
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20000521
Author:Georgia Jones-Davis
RUDYARD KIPLING
A Life
By Harry Ricketts
Carroll & Graf. 434 pp. $28
Harry Ricketts has written a subtle, restrained biography of Rudyard Kipling, a man whom one could hardly describe as discreet or judicious himself. Ricketts's conflicted feelings about Kipling emerge between the lines of his elegant, clean narrative. It's as though he's written a tale of two Kiplings.
He loves the young, brilliant, prolific "Rud," full of raw energy and wonder as he writes about India, Japan and America. He's less than enthusiastic about the mature Kipling, the bard of the British Empire, author of the ...
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