Thomas Pinney 
Letters of Rudyard Kipling [PDF ebook] 
Volume 3: 1900-10

‘The letters bring the man marvellously alive…a perfect bedside book and an important contribution to Kipling scholarship.’ — Ian Mc Intyre, Times Volume 3 of Kipling’s Letters covers the decade 1900-10, the years in which Kipling published Kim, Just So Stories, The Five Nations, Traffics and Discoveries, Puck of Pook’s Hill, Actions and Reactions, and Rewards and Fairies. The narrative of his life includes the years in South Africa during and after the Boer War, his move to Bateman’s in Sussex, his increasing involvement in the politics of preparedness and the growing record of his honours, culminating in the Nobel Prize.