The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) [Paperback]

Rudyard Kipling (Author)

Book Description

Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Publication Date: December 5, 1999

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues and extended ballads. He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism, and the British Empire, but an attentive reading of the poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwell's hard-hitting account of Kipling's poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling.

Product Details

• Paperback: 928 pages
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd; First edition & printing in this form edition (December 5, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1853264059
• ISBN-13: 978-1853264054
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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96 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Take a careful look at the Publisher before your buy "The Works of Rudyard Kipling", July 15, 2010

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Kiwi (Mississauga, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Works of Rudyard Kipling (Volume 10) (Paperback)

There's a reason for many of the negative reviews of the quality of this book. This is because the version of "The Works of Rudyard Kipling" published by General Books LLC is an el cheapo version, created using OCR scanning and an automated scanning device which can miss complete pages. Typos are frequent and there's no table of contents, also, there was absolutely no editing of the book. This is all stated on the publishers web site (google them and read - you'll be as interested as I was when you see all the disclaimers).

The owner of General Books LLC (a company called VDM Publishing), is getting more and more notorious for these ripoffs - almost every review of their books (500,000 or so now listed on Amazon) by an actual buyer is negative, many are extremely so. Also watch out for any books published by Alphascript, Betascript, Fastbooks, Books LLC and LLC Books - all imprints of VDM Publishing. Unfortunately, Amazon is currently doing nothing to protect their customers from this Publishers misleading product descriptions.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars iPhoners beware..., March 26, 2010

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William Hughes (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (100+ with active table of contents) (Kindle Edition)

Okay, maybe I shouldn't complain for a dollar, but the table of contents don't work! On the first page is a table of contents that divides the work into non-fiction, novels, short stories. That one works and takes you to the table of contents for those genres. But those sub-ToCs don't work, nor do any of the others (for example, when you get to the Jungle Book, it has a ToC, but it doesn't work)

Since there is a lot of stuff here (which is great, for 0.99) it is very, very hard to navigate. I ended up walking around in the document until I found the stories I wanted and then used the 'Mark' function, which you can jump to from the 'Go to' menu.

But that's a lot of work. Guess you get what you pay for.

37 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Volume 2?, September 21, 2007

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Anony Bob (Albany, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Works of Rudyard Kipling, Volume II (Paperback)

The cover reads "The Works of Rudyard Kipling, Volume II, Rudyard Kipling. The table of contents lists these five sections:

Volume V: Plain Tales from the Hills
Volume VI: The Light that Failed
Volume VII: The Story of the Gadsbys
Volume VIII: From Mine Own People

The "Search inside" link appears to show the Volume I book. It is incorrectly listed as a previous version. I haven't been able to find Volume I for sale and I don't know if there is a Volume III.

This is an odd edition. There are no page numbers in the ToC, no preface, no index, no cover art. The plain tome resembles a computer printout that was typeset and well bound. I guess you could say that it was pure Kipling though.