In the 1890s, he developed a great interest in folk legends and animal myths | At six, he was sent to school in England, but until he was 12, poor health kept him from attending |
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As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack | he widely lectured and wrote for the British cause both before and during the war |
The Jungle Book 1894 and Just So Stories 1902 give the wit and wisdom of the animals who can talk.
12Kipling received the 1907 Nobel prize for literature | He wrote sketches and verses which at first were used as fillers for unused editorial space |
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Kipling gained renown throughout the world as a poet and storyteller | His famous poem, , written in 1897 in honor of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, contains a strong warning to the British not to exploit other races |
At this time, he also created his soldiers three, and Irishman, a Cockney, and a Yorkshireman, the bases for his 1888 humorous tale Soldiers Three | Mandalay tries to capture the strange atmosphere of the east |
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His only son was killed in World War I | Before World War I, Kipling became active in politics |
In 1905, Kipling completed Kim, his first major novel.
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