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Something of Myself: for my friends known and unknown is the autobiography of Rudyard Kipling. Kipling wrote it in the last year of his life; the unfinished text was prepared for publication by his wife. It has remained in print since its first publication in 1937.
Dec 1, 2016 · Joseph Rudyard Kipling's 1937 autobiography. This may not be the easiest of reads for the modern reader, as many of the words are no longer in common use, and Kipling, himself, created words frequently.
There is only one edition of Something of Myself, but the differences in detail between the text of the first printing and the text printed in the Outward Bound and Sussex Editions in 1937 and 1938 – the last texts that Mrs. Kipling is likely to have had anything to do with – are quite considerable.
A Very Young Person. 1865-1878. by Rudyard Kipling. Give me the first six years of a child’s life and you can have the rest. LOOKING back from this my seventieth year, it seems to me that every card in my working life has been dealt me in such a manner that I had but to play it as it came.
"Something of Myself", Rudyard Kipling's memoir of his writing life, was composed in the year before he died and published posthumously. Its spare, polished phrases and masterly anecdotes offer a unique insight into the mind of this divided man who upheld the Victorian imperialist values of duty, patriotism and obedience, and yet sympathized ...
Feb 23, 2024 · Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling. Publication date 1937 Publisher Macmillan and Co., Limited Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled
SO, at sixteen years and nine months, but looking four or five years older, and adorned with real whiskers which the scandalised Mother abolished within one hour of beholding, I found myself at Bombay where I was born, moving among sights and smells that made me deliver in the vernacular sentences whose meaning I knew not.
