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Rudyard Kipling
(1865–1936)

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British author and poet; born in India and educated in England; was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.
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Each of the main sections below (i.e. 'Poetry collections', 'Novels', 'Short story collections' follows the sequence given in Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling (1927), by Flora V. Livingston). Wherever possible, the transcriptions are based on the earliest available Indian or English publication accessible on-line.

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one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format. Each of the main sections below (i.e. 'Poetry collections', 'Novels', 'Short story collections' follows the sequence given in Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling (1927), by Flora V. Livingston). Wherever possible, the transcriptions are based on the earliest available Indian or English publication accessible on-line.

• All poems

• Schoolboy Lyrics (1881, privately printed)
• Echoes, by Two Writers (1884, with sister Beatrice)
• Departmental Ditties and other verses (1886)
• Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses (1890)
• Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses (1892)
• Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (1892)
• The Seven Seas (1896)
• Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (1919)
• The Five Nations (1903)
• A Song of the English (1909)
• Songs from Books (1912)
• The Years Between (1919)
• Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918 (1919) (transcription project)

Anthologized:

• "Hymn before Action" in Poems of the Great War (1914)
• From A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917):
  • "For all we have and are" pp. 52-3.
  • "The Choice" pp. 92-3.

• The Light That Failed
• The Naulahka, with Wolcott Balestier (1892) IA
  • Verse heading chapter 5 Solo from Libretto of Naulahka
• "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks (1897) IA
• Kim, 1912 (1901)

• Quartette (1885), co-authored with his father, mother, and sister (transcription project)
• Soldiers Three (1888) (transcription project)
  • The God from the Machine
  • Private Learoyd's Story
  • The Big Drunk Draf'
  • The Solid Muldoon
  • With the Main Guard
  • In the Matter of a Private
  • Black Jack

• The Story of the Gadsbys (1888) (transcription project)
  • Poor Dear Mamma
  • The World Without
  • The Tents of Kedar
  • With Any Amazement
  • The Garden of Eden
  • Fatima
  • The Valley of the Shadow
  • The Swelling of Jordan

• In Black and White (1888) (transcription project)
  • Dray Wara Yow Dee
  • The Judgment of Dungara
  • At Howli Thana
  • Gemini
  • At Twenty-Two
  • In Flood Time
  • The Sending of Dana Da
  • On the City Wall

• Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) (transcription project)
  • Lispeth
  • Three and—an Extra, 1886
  • Thrown Away, 1888
  • Miss Youghal's Sais, 1887
  • 'Yoked with an Unbeliever', 1886
  • False Dawn, 1888
  • The Rescue of Pluffles, 1886
  • Cupid's Arrows, 1888
  • The Three Musketeers, 1887
  • His Chance in Life, 1887
  • Watches of the Night, 1887
  • The Other Man, 1886
  • Consequences, 1886
  • The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin, 1887
  • The Taking of Lungtungpen, 1887
  • A Germ-Destroyer, 1887
  • Kidnapped, 1887
  • The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly, 1886
  • In the House of Suddhoo, 1886
  • His Wedded Wife, 1887
  • The Broken-Link Handicap, 1887
  • Beyond the Pale, 1888
  • In Error, 1887
  • A Bank Fraud, 1887
  • Tods' Amendment, 1887
  • The Daughter of the Regiment, 1887
  • In the Pride of his Youth, 1887
  • Pig, 1887
  • The Rout of the White Hussars, 1888
  • The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case, 1888
  • Venus Annodomini, 1886
  • The Bisara of Pooree, 1887
  • A Friend's Friend, 1887
  • The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, 1884
  • The Madness of Private Ortheris, 1888
  • The Story of Muhammad Din, 1886
  • On the Strength of a Likeness, 1887
  • Wressley of the Foreign Office, 1887
  • By Word of Mouth, 1887
  • To be Filed for Reference, 1888

• The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales (1888) (transcription project)
  • The Phantom ’Rickshaw
  • My Own True Ghost Story
  • The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
  • The Man Who Would Be King

• Under the Deodars (1888) (transcription project)
  • The Education of Otis Yeere
  • At the Pit’s Mouth
  • A Wayside Comedy
  • The Hill of Illusion
  • A Second-Rate Woman
  • Only a Subaltern

• Wee Willie Winkie, and other stories (1888) (transcription project)
  • Wee Willie Winkie
  • Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
  • His Majesty the King
  • The Drums of the Fore and Aft

• Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People (1891) (transcription project)
  • The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
  • The Courting of Dinah Shadd
  • On Greenhow Hill
  • The Man Who Was
  • The Head of the District
  • Without Benefit of Clergy
  • At the End of the Passage
  • The Mutiny of the Mavericks
  • The Mark of the Beast
  • The Return of Imray
  • Namgay Doola
  • The Lang Men o' Larut
  • Bertran and Bimi
  • Reingelder and the German Flag
  • The Wandering Jew
  • Through the Fire
  • The Finances of the Gods
  • The Amir's Homily
  • Jews in Shushan
  • The Limitations of Pambé Serang
  • Little Tobrah
  • Moti Guj—Mutineer
  • Bubbling Well Road
  • The City of Dreadful Night
  • Georgie Porgie
  • Naboth
  • The Dream of Duncan Parrenness

• Many Inventions (1893) (transcription project)
  • The Disturber of Traffic
  • A Conference of the Powers
  • My Lord the Elephant
  • One View of the Question
  • 'The Finest Story in the World'
  • His Private Honour
  • A Matter of Fact
  • The Lost Legion
  • In the Rukh
  • 'Brugglesmith'
  • 'Love-o'-Women'
  • The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot
  • Judson and the Empire
  • The Children of the Zodiac

• The Jungle Book (1894)
  • Mowgli's Brothers, 1894
  • Kaa's Hunting, 1894
  • Tiger! Tiger!, 1894
  • The White Seal, 1893
  • Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, 1893
  • Toomai of the Elephants, 1893
  • Her Majesty's Servants, 1894
• The Second Jungle Book (1895) (external scan)
  • How Fear Came, 1894
  • The Miracle of Purun Bhagat, 1894
  • Letting In the Jungle, 1894
  • The Undertakers, 1894
  • The King's Ankus, 1895
  • Quiquern, 1895
  • Red Dog, 1895
  • The Spring Running, 1895
• The Day's Work (1898) (transcription project)
  • The Bridge-Builders
  • A Walking Delegate
  • The Ship that Found Herself
  • The Tomb of his Ancestors
  • The Devil and the Deep Sea
  • William the Conqueror
  • .007
  • The Maltese Cat
  • "Bread upon the Waters"
  • An Error in the Fourth Dimension
  • My Sunday at Home
  • The Brushwood Boy
• Stalky & Co.(1908)
  • 'In Ambush', 1898
  • Slaves of the Lamp. Part I, 1897
  • An Unsavoury Interlude, 1899
  • The Impressionists, 1899
  • The Moral Reformers, 1899
  • A Little Prep., 1899
  • The Flag of their Country, 1899
  • The Last Term, 1899
  • Slaves of the Lamp. Part II, 1897
• Just So Stories (1902)
  • How the Whale Got His Throat, 1897
  • How the Camel Got His Hump, 1898
  • How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, 1898
  • How the Leopard Got His Spots, 1901
  • The Elephant's Child, 1900
  • The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, 1900
  • The Beginning of the Armadillos, 1900
  • How the First Letter Was Written, 1901
  • How the Alphabet Was Made, 1902
  • The Crab That Played with the Sea, 1902
  • The Cat That Walked by Himself, 1902
  • The Butterfly That Stamped, 1902
  • The Tabu Tale, 1903
• Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
  • The Captive, 1902
  • The Bonds of Discipline, 1903
  • A Sahibs' War, 1901
  • "Their Lawful Occasions", 1903
  • The Comprehension of Private Copper, 1902
  • Steam Tactics, 1902
  • "Wireless", 1902
  • The Army of a Dream, 1904
  • "They", 1904
  • Mrs. Bathurst, 1904
  • Below the Mill Dam, 1902
• Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
  • edition illustrated by H. R. Millar (transcription project)
  • edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham (transcription project)
• Actions and Reactions, 1909 (transcription project)
• Abaft the Funnel (1909)
• Rewards and Fairies (1910)
  • Cold Iron, 1909
  • Gloriana, 1909
  • The Wrong Thing, 1909
  • Marklake Witches, 1910
  • The Knife and the Naked Chalk, 1909
  • Brother Square-Toes, 1910
  • If—, 1895
  • "A Priest in Spite of Himself", 1910
  • The Conversion of St. Wilfrid, 1910
  • A Doctor of Medicine, 1909
  • Simple Simon, 1910
  • The Tree of Justice, 1910

• The Eyes of Asia (1917)

• The Complete Stalky & Co. (1929)
  • "Stalky", 1898
  • 'In Ambush', 1898
  • Slaves of the Lamp. Part I, 1897
  • An Unsavoury Interlude, 1899
  • The Impressionists, 1899
  • The Moral Reformers, 1899
  • The United Idolaters, 1924 IA
  • Regulus, 1917
  • A Little Prep., 1899
  • The Flag of their Country, 1899
  • The Propagation of Knowledge, 1926
  • The Satisfaction of a Gentleman, 1929
  • The Last Term, 1899
  • Slaves of the Lamp. Part II, 1897
• A Diversity of Creatures , 1917
  • As Easy as A.B.C.
  • MacDonough's Song
  • Friendly Brook
  • The Land
  • In the Same Boat
  • 'Helen all Alone'
  • The Honours of War [Stalky & Co. story]
  • The Children
  • The Dog Hervey
  • The Comforters
  • The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
  • The Press
  • In the Presence
  • Jobson's Amen
  • Regulus [ Stalky & Co. story]
  • A Translation
  • The Edge of the Evening
  • Rebirth
  • The Horse Marines
  • The Legend of Mirth
  • 'My Son's Wife'
  • The Floods
  • The Fabulists
  • The Vortex
  • The Song of Seven Cities
  • 'Swept and Garnished'
  • Mary Postgate
  • The Beginnings
• Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (British/Indian edition 1919, British edition 1923, American edition 1923 under the title Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls) IA
  • Winning the Victoria Cross, 1897
  • The Way That He Took, 1900
  • An Unqualified Pilot, 1895
  • The Junk and the Dhow
  • His Gift
  • The Master-Cook
  • A Flight of Fact, 1918
  • "Stalky", 1898
  • The Hour of the Angel
  • The Burning of the Sarah Sands, 1898
  • The Last Lap
  • The Parable of Boy Jones, 1910
  • A Departure
  • The Bold 'Prentice, 1895
  • The Nurses
  • The Son of His Father, 1893
  • An English School, 1893
  • A Counting-Out Song
• Debits and Credits, a 1926 collection that includes a number of earlier stories
  • The Enemies to Each Other, 1924 IA
  • The Changelings
  • Sea Constables: A Tale of '15, 1915
  • The Vineyard
  • 'Banquet Night'
  • "In the Interests of the Brethren", 1918
  • To the Companions (Horace, Ode 17, Bk. v.)
  • The United Idolaters, 1924 IA
  • The Centaurs
  • 'Late Came the God'
  • The Wish House, 1924
  • Rahere
  • The Survival (Horace, Ode 22, Bk. v.)
  • The Janeites, 1924 IA
  • Jane's Marriage
  • The Portent (Horace, Ode 20, Bk. v.)
  • The Prophet and the Country, 1924 IA
  • Gow's Watch: Act IV. Sc. 4
  • The Bull That Thought, 1924 IA
  • Alnaschar and the Oxen
  • Gipsy Vans
  • A Madonna of the Trenches, 1924 IA
  • Gow's Watch: Act V. Sc. 3
  • The Birthright
  • The Propagation of Knowledge, 1926
  • The Legend of Truth
  • A Friend of the Family, 1924 IA
  • We and They
  • On the Gate: A Tale of ’16, 1926
  • The Supports
  • Untimely
  • The Eye of Allah, 1926
  • The Last Ode: Nov. 27, B.C. 8 (Horace, Ode31, Bk. v.)
  • The Gardener, 1925
  • The Burden
• Thy Servant a Dog (1930)
• Limits and Renewals (1932)

• Aunt Ellen, 1932
• Beauty Spots, 1932
• Bitters Neat, 1887
• The Church That Was at Antioch, 1929
• Dayspring Mishandled, 1928
• A Deal in Cotton, 1907
• The Debt, 1930
• The Edge of the Evening, 1913
• The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P., 1890 IA
• The Eyes of Asia, 1917
• Fairy-Kist, 1927
• Friendly Brook, 1914
• Garm — a Hostage, 1899
• The Great Play Hunt, 1930
• An Habitation Enforced, 1905
• Ham and the Porcupine, 1935
• Haunted Subalterns, 1887
• His Majesty the King, 1888
• The Horse Marines, 1911
• The House Surgeon, 1909
• In the Presence, 1912
• In the Same Boat, 1911
• The Last Relief, 1891
• The Legs of Sister Ursula, in The Idler, vol 3, 1893
• Little Foxes, 1909
• The Manner of Men, 1930
• The Miracle of Saint Jubanus, 1930
• The Mother Hive, 1908
• Mrs. Hauksbee Sits Out, 1890
• My Personal Experience with a Lion, 1902
• "My Son's Wife", 1917
• A Naval Mutiny, 1931
• Of Those Called, 1889
• The Pit That They Digged, 1889
• The Puzzler, 1906
• The Satisfaction of a Gentleman, 1929
• A Sea Dog, 1934
• Teem — a Treasure-Hunter, 1935
• The Tender Achilles, 1929
• Thy Servant a Dog, 1930
• The Tie, 1932
• Toby Dog, 1930
• A Tour of Inspection, 1904
• The Track of a Lie, 1888
• Uncovenanted Mercies, 1932
• Unprofessional, 1930
• The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat, 1917
• The Vortex, 1914
• With the Night Mail, 1905
• The Woman in His Life, 1928
• The Wreck of the Visigoth, 1889

• A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron (1898) (transcription project)
• From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (1899)
• Speech at the Mansion House, London, on January 27, 1915, in Great Speeches of the War (1915)
• Letters of Travel: 1892–1913 (1920) (transcription project)
• 1932 Royal Christmas Message
• Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown (1937) - autobiography.
• "The Heritage," in The Empire and the century (pp. 1−2), London: John Murray (1905)
• Independence: Rectorial address delivered at St Andrews October 10 1923 (1924)

• Q. Horati Flacci Carminum librum quintum (1921), by Quintus Horatius Flaccus, co-translated with Charles Larcom Graves
  • Ode I.
  • Ode VI.
  • Ode XIII.

• Rudyard Kipling's verse - Inclusive Edition 1885-1918

• Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1923)
• The Muse Among the Motors (1904–1929)
• Limits and Renewals (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028
• Twenty-one Tales (1946)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2042

• Kipling's Early Verse, NYT (1899)[1]
• "Kipling, Rudyard," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Kipling, Rudyard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Kipling, Rudyard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Kipling's Ballads of 'The Seven Seas' ", by Edmund Clarence Stedman from Genius, and other essays (1911)
• "Kipling, Rudyard," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Kipling, Rudyard," in The Indian Biographical Dictionary (p. 270), by C. Hayavadana Rao, Madras: Pillar & Co. (1915)
• "Kipling, Rudyard," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Kipling, Rudyard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)

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• Stories Three by Bret Harte
• P.C., X, 36 by Max Beerbohm