Franklin Library: RUDYARD KIPLING STORIES: INDIA: MALTESE CAT: WITHOUT CLERGY.

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Franklin Library 1/4 leather spine edition of "Stories from Rudyard Kipling," a limited edition, Illustrated by Howard Rogers, published in 1980.

Bound with a deep red leather spine, the book has decorative paper end leaves, hubbed spine, gold gilding on the edges.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling, who lived from 1865–1936, was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Kipling was chief spokesman for nineteenth-century British imperialism: the self-appointed "Bard of the Empire." In stories, poems, and novels, set mostly in India, he glorified the British. This volume includes "In the Matter of a Private," "The Man Who Would Be King," "The Lost Legion," "Wireless," "The Cat that Walked by Himself," "At the End of the Passage," "The Courting of Dinah Shadd," "Without the Benefit of Clergy," "The Maltese Cat," "They," "Marklake Witches," "Mary Postgate," "A Madonna of the Trenches," "The Gardener," "The Finest Story in the World," "On Greenhow Hill," and "On the Great Wall."

Kipling was awarded the NOBEL PRIZE for Literature in 1907, the first British writer to be so honored.

435 pages.