Rudyard Kipling 
Puck of Pook’s Hill (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) [EPUB ebook] 

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a past master of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”