Merlin's Isle

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Excerpt from Merlin's Isle: A Study of Rudyard Kipling's England The earlier works of Mr. Rudyard Kipling were exotics, they dealt with lands and peoples of which the English at home knew very little indeed. For many years, Rudyard Kipling was regarded as a teller of Indian tales, little concerned with the life and ways and doings of the insular Briton. London, east or west, the City and Suburbia, the English countryside, the English home - he cared for none of these things. His subject-matter was brought from afar, gathered, as he later puts it, "In extended observation of the ways and works of man, From the Four-mile Radius roughly to the plains of Hindustan..." - and the Four-mile Radius itself plays but an insignificant part as a starting-point for wanderings about the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.