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Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny Andrew Roberts
David Gilmours superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His famous poem Recessional celebrated Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee in 1897, but his last poems warned of the dangers of Nazism, and in those intervening years Kipling, himself an icon of the Empire, was transformed from an apostle of success to a prophet of national decline. As Gilmour makes clear, Kiplings mysterious stories and poetry deeply influenced the way his readers saw both themselves and the British Empire, and they continue to challenge us today.

A fine, fair and generous work ... Gilmours celebrated life of Curzon demonstrated his mastery of imperial nuance and esoteric character, and he brings to this book just the right combination of empathy,...

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Curzon: Imperial Statesman

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa

The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples

Cities of Spain

The Transformation of Spain: From Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy

Lebanon: The Fractured Country

Dispossessed: The Ordeal of the Palestinians

The Hungry Generations

David Gilmour

THE LONG RECESSIONAL
The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
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First published by John Murray Publishers Ltd Great Britain 2002 Published - photo 2

First published by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd, Great Britain 2002
Published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002
Published in Penguin Books with a new Preface 2019

Copyright David Gilmour, 2002, 2019

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Cover: Colour lithograph of Rudyard Kipling by William Nicholson Desmond Banks/Bridgeman Images
Pattern from Print Collector/Getty Images

ISBN: 978-0-141-99089-7

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About the Author

David Gilmour is one of Britains most admired and accomplished historical writers and biographers. He is the author of Curzon (Duff Cooper Prize), The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj and the acclaimed The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience. His other works include The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples, The Last Leopard, a biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (Marsh Biography Award) as well as several books on the modern history of Spain and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Research Fellow of St Antonys College, Oxford.

Illustrations

. Imperial icons from the Struwwelpeter Alphabet

. Alice Kipling

. Lockwood Kipling with his son

. Rudyard at the beginning of his exile from India

. Kipling, the Anglo-Indian chronicler

. Lahore

. Edmonia Hill in Allahabad

. The Mall at Simla

. Kipling by William Nicholson, c. 1899, from Twelve Portraits

. Naulakha in Vermont

. Caroline Kipling by Philip Burne-Jones, 1899

. Batemans in Sussex

. Paul Kruger, Prime Minister of the Transvaal

. Perceval Landon, H.A. Taffy Gwynne, Kipling and Julian Ralph in Bloemfontein

. Cecil Rhodes

. Alfred Milner

. Leander Starr Jameson

. Kipling by William Strang

. Joseph Chamberlain

. George Curzon on his appointment as Viceroy of India

. Lord Salisbury

. Arthur Balfour

. Lord Ripon, Viceroy of India

. H.H. Asquith

. Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George

. Lord Beaverbrook

. H. Rider Haggard

. Stanley Baldwin

. Kipling at Tunbridge Wells, May 1913

. Lieutenant John Kipling of the Irish Guards

. Field Marshal Lord Roberts

. Kipling and George V visiting war graves

. The Kiplings with Andrew Bonar Law in France

. Rudyard and Carrie Kipling

The author and publishers would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce illustrations: Plate , National Portrait Gallery, London.

Imperial icons from the Struwwelpeter Alphabet Alice Kipling Rudyards - photo 3. Imperial icons from the Struwwelpeter AlphabetAlice Kipling Rudyards mother all Celt and three-parts fire Sage Yorkshire - photo 4. Alice Kipling, Rudyards mother, all Celt and three-parts fireSage Yorkshire outlook Lockwood Kipling with his son Rudyard at the - photo 5. Sage Yorkshire outlook: Lockwood Kipling with his sonRudyard at the beginning of his exile from India The Anglo-Indian - photo 6. Rudyard at the beginning of his exile from IndiaThe Anglo-Indian chronicler Lahore that wonderful dirty mysterious ant - photo 7. The Anglo-Indian chroniclerLahore that wonderful dirty mysterious ant hill Confidante and - photo 8. Lahore, that wonderful, dirty, mysterious ant hillConfidante and sympathetic soul Edmonia Hill in Allahabad Social centre of - photo 9. Confidante and sympathetic soul: Edmonia Hill in AllahabadSocial centre of the summer Raj The Mall at Simla Haggards true watchman of - photo 10. Social centre of the summer Raj: The Mall at SimlaHaggards true watchman of our Empire Kipling by William Nicholson c 1899 - photo 11. Haggards true watchman of our Empire: Kipling by William Nicholson, c. 1899Exemplifying the modern Naulakha in Vermont The Commandress-in-Chief - photo 12. Exemplifying the modern: Naulakha in VermontThe Commandress-in-Chief Caroline Kipling by Philip Burne-Jones 1899 - photo 13. The Commandress-in-Chief : Caroline Kipling by Philip Burne-Jones, 1899Quintessential England Batemans in Sussex Milners frock-coated Neanderthal - photo 14. Quintessential England: Batemans in SussexMilners frock-coated Neanderthal Paul Kruger Prime Minister of the - photo 15. Milners frock-coated Neanderthal: Paul Kruger, Prime Minister of the TransvaalFriends in the Press Perceval Landon HA Taffy Gwynne standing RK and - photo 16. Friends in the Press: Perceval Landon, H.A. Taffy Gwynne (standing), RK and Julian Ralph in BloemfonteinCecil Rhodes dreamer devout and Colossus of the Cape Alfred Milner one of - photo 17. Cecil Rhodes, dreamer devout and Colossus of the CapeAlfred Milner one of the sanest of men and chief architect of the Boer War - photo 18
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