Rudyard Kipling's autobiography, Something of Myself, was the author's last work, but it has not received the serious attention it deserves. Thomas Pinney's edition of the work, supplemented by other autobiographical pieces, aims to change that. Professor Pinney, a leading textual editor currently engaged on Kipling's letters, has consulted the available source material relating to Something of Myself. He has constructed an outline of the book's composition; described the history of its publication; established a text and a set of variants; and given a critical account of the book's design and its main themes. His annotations to the work (and to the supplementary pieces) identify references and allusions, and provide a biographical context against which Kipling's selections, omissions, and distortions may clearly be seen. The extent to which Kipling's description of his life failed to match what actually happened is extraordinary. Two of the additional items presented here (Kipling's Indian diary of 1885 and the illustrations he made for his autobiographical story, 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep') are previously unpublished. Pinney shows how they, and other forms of autobiographical writing, reflect upon or complicate the narrative of Something of Myself. This carefully prepared edition sheds new light on Kipling as a man and writer.
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Black Sheep, Aunty Rosa, Uncle Harry, Bliss Cottage, Cape Town, Baa Baa, Boer War, New England, South Africa, Cormell Price, Villiers Street, Departmental Ditties, New York, Something of Myself, The Grange, United States, Walter Besant, Bret Harte, Downe Lodge, First Fifteen, House of Desolation, Native State, Rider Haggard, Simons Town, The Idler New!
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
untitled scrap, grey man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Sheep, Aunty Rosa, Uncle Harry, Bliss Cottage, Cape Town, Baa Baa, Boer War, New England, South Africa, Cormell Price, Villiers Street, Departmental Ditties, New York, Something of Myself, The Grange, United States, Walter Besant, Bret Harte, Downe Lodge, First Fifteen, House of Desolation, Native State, Rider Haggard, Simons Town, The Idler New!
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