Rudyard Kipling

Person · Open Library

Born

30 December 1865

Died

18 January 1936

Works

4251

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1865-12-30

Active to

1936-01-18

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

7,080

Total plays

49,658

(December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in Bombay. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author Henry James famously <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rudyard+Kipling">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion

   · 2003 · cited 2,849x

2. The inverted microscope method of estimating algal numbers and the statistical basis of estimations by counting

   · 1958 · cited 1,946x

3. Cyberostracism: Effects of being ignored over the Internet.

   · 2000 · cited 1,685x

4. Ostracism

   · 2007 · cited 1,626x

5. Many hands make light the work: The causes and consequences of social loafing.

   · 1979 · cited 1,480x

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Quotes

• “I've just read that I'm dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.”
• “There are only two divisions in the world to-day — human beings and Germans. And the German knows it. Human beings have long ago sickened of him and everything connected with him, of all he does, says, thinks and believes.”
• “It's a scientific-cum-sporting murder proposition with enough guns at last to account for the birds, and the Hun is having a very sickly time of it. He has the erroneous idea that he is being hurt, whereas he won't know what real pain means for a long time. I almost begin to hope that when we have done with him there will be very little Hun left.”
• “The only serious enemy to the Empire, within or without, is that very Democracy which depends on the Empire for its proper comforts.”
• “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
• “"[W]e know nothing about their life which touches so intimately the White on the one hand and the Black on the other.... Wanted, therefore, a writer from among the Eurasians, who shall write so that men shall be pleased to read a story of Eurasian life; then outsiders will be interested in the People of India, and will admit that the race has possibilities."”

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🏅Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Literature1907

  “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author”