Rudyard Kipling's If


Online Resources

The Kipling Society
A site created by the Kipling Society for the use of its members and of anyone around the world with an interest in the life and works of Rudyard Kipling. Contains a wealth of information on Kipling, including The New Readers' Guide to the works of Rudyard Kipling and a searchable text-only archive of the Kipling Journal (the most recent eight issues are only available to members of the Kipling Society).

Marlboro College's Rudyard Kipling Collection
The Kipling Collection at Marlboro College contains books, journals, photographs, and primary documents. The collection focuses primarily on Kipling's Vermont years.

Syracuse University Library: Rudyard Kipling Collection
Syracuse University Library's Rudyard Kipling Papers comprises correspondence, writings, and memorabilia.

Texas A&M University: Rudyard Kipling Collection
The Cushing Memorial Library at Texas A&M University collects books, manuscripts, letters and other items relating to the life and works of Rudyard Kipling.

University of Sussex Library: Rudyard Kipling Collection
The University of Sussex Library Special Collections contains a wide selection of Kipling's papers and published works, including his journalism and many early-edition printed books.

The Victorian Web: Rudyard Kipling
An overview of Kipling in the context of the Victorian period. Includes a chronology and a discussion of Kipling's Imperialism.


Works by Kipling

Works by Rudyard Kipling
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Includes an audio version of "If" and a plain-text version of Rewards and Fairies.

To identify the catalogued works by Kipling at Dalhousie University, consult the online catalogue, NOVANET.


Selected Biographies and Works of Criticism about Kipling


Allen, Charles. Kipling Sahib: India and the making of Rudyard Kipling. London: Little, Brown, 2007.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library call number - PR 4856 A5355 2007)

Dillingham, William B. Rudyard Kipling: Hell and heroism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library call number - PR 4857 D55 2005)

Dobrée, Bonamy. Rudyard Kipling: Realist and fabulist. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library call number - PR 4857 D6 1967)

Gilmour, David. The long recessional: The Imperial life of Rudyard Kipling. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library call number - PR 4858 P6 G55 2002)

Havholm, Peter. Politics and awe in Rudyard Kipling’s fiction. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub., 2008.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library Special Collections - Kipling call number - PR 4858 I48 H38 2008)

Kipling, Rudyard. Something of myself and other autobiographical writings. Ed. Thomas Pinney. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library call number - PR 4856 A37 1990)

Mallett, Phillip. Rudyard Kipling: A literary life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library Special Collections - Kipling call number - PR 4856 M24 2003)

Mason, Philip. Kipling: The glass, the shadow and the fire. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library call number - PR 4856 M36)

McBratney, John. Imperial subjects, imperial space: Rudyard Kipling's fiction of the native-born. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2002.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library Special Collections - Kipling call number - PR 4858 I45 M38 2002)

Page, Norman. A Kipling companion. London: Macmillan, 1984.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library call number PR 4857 P28 1984)

Pinney, Thomas, ed. Rudyard Kipling's uncollected speeches: A second book of words, with a checklist of his speeches.
     Greensboro, NC: ELT Press, 2008.
     (Dalhousie Killam Library Special Collections - Kipling call number - PR 4856 A33 2008)

Richards, David Alan. Rudyard Kipling: The books I leave behind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library Special Collections call number - Z 8465 R53 2007)

Ricketts, Harry. The unforgiving minute: A life of Rudyard Kipling. London: Chatto & Windus, 1999.
     (Dalhousie Killam Library call number - PR 4856 R5 1999)

Stewart, James McG. Rudyard Kipling, a bibliographical catalogue. Ed. A. W. Yeats. Toronto: Dalhousie University Press, 1959.
      (Dalhousie Killam Library call number - Z 8465 S7)

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