Rudyard Kipling Illustrated Short Stories and Poems

"An immense gift for using words, an amazing curiosity and power of observation with his mind and with all his senses, the mask of the entertainer, and beyond that a queer gift of second sight, of transmitting messages from elsewhere, a gift so disconcerting when we are made aware of it that thenceforth we are never sure when it is not present: all this makes Kipling a writer impossible wholly to understand and quite impossible to belittle." (T.S Eliot) "He [Kipling] is a stranger to me, but he is a most remarkable man -- and I am the other one. Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest." (Mark Twain). "Kipling is the only English writer of our time who has added phrases to the language." (George Orwell). This anthology of stories and poems by the youngest writer ever to win the Nobel Prize (1907) includes well known masterpieces such as "In the House of Suddhoo", "Beyond the Pale", "The Song of the Dead" and "The Story of Muhammad Din" amongst others. All of them annotated with pertinent information for the modern reader and copiously illustrated with images in full colour that will take you to the fascinating and controversial world of the British Empire as seen by one of its greatest representatives.