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Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown Paperback – June 1, 1999

by Rudyard Kipling (Author), Robert Hampson (Editor), Richard Holmes (Introduction)

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Kipling's autobiography recalls his childhood in India, his schooldays and family life in the pre-Raphaelite circle that included William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones and his early writing career up to the award of the Nobel Prize (when he was only 42.)

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224 pages
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English
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Penguin Uk
Publication date

June 1, 1999
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5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
ISBN-10

0140185038
ISBN-13

978-0140185034
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Uk (June 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140185038
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140185034
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches

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KH (Chicago)

Kipling's life is nothing short of amazing, and the first chapter of this book will ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2016

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Kipling's life is nothing short of amazing, and the first chapter of this book will stun you. This book is an awesome autobiographical glimpse into the time Kipling lived!

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Oliver Twist

The Man Who Would Be Kipling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2011

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For those who would understand Rudyard Kipling, this is a useful book - made more so by Richard Holmes's really very insightful Introduction, and the Explanatory Notes.*

Kipling was in the habit of laying manuscripts to one side for weeks, or even months, in order to let them "drain" before revising and polishing them. He clearly did not have the opportunity to do this with "Something of Myself" - his own death having intervened in the process. To some extent this accounts for the curious omissions, cryptic phrases (which probably only fully made sense to their author) and for what might be called the book's "underwritten" parts. Neverthless, I think that the overall shape of the book is as Kipling intended, and I found the passages on his early childhood in India (I wish there had been more on this); the horrors at Southsea; at school; on the "Civil and Military Gazette" in Lahore; on his working methods, etc, to be useful and informative. I likewise found his views on America to be fundamentally sound and still relevant today.

Holmes highlights the importance of the pre-Raphaelite influence upon Kipling's own approach, as well as the significance of Kipling creating what might be called a "magic circle" to ward off the external world and, within which, to create his own. He concludes: "Kipling's Arcadia, unlike the British Empire, was not doomed. It has become a permanent free-state of the imagination" - a free-state to which any interested reader can gain entry.

*This review relates to the "Penguin Twentieth Century Classics" edition.

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Walter J. Maynard

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2014

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Very nice and useful original book. An interesting view of his thoughts.

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Woman

As expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2016