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Rudyard Kipling: Something of Myself (Canto original series)
Rudyard Kipling Something of Myself - Canto original series Author:Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kiplings autobiography, Something of Myself, was the authors last work, but it has not received the serious attention it deserves. Thomas Pinneys edition of the work, supplemented by other autobiographical pieces, aims to change that. Professor Pinney, a leading textual editor currently engaged on Kiplings letters, has consulted the avai... more »lable source material relating to Something of Myself. He has constructed an outline of the books composition; described the history of its publication; established a text and a set of variants; and given a critical account of the books design and its main themes. His annotations to the work (and to the supplementary pieces) identify references and allusions, and provide a biographical context against which Kiplings selections, omissions, and distortions may clearly be seen. The extent to which Kiplings description of his life failed to match what actually happened is extraordinary. Two of the additional items presented here (Kiplings Indian diary of 1885 and the illustrations he made for his autobiographical story, Baa Baa, Black Sheep) are previously unpublished. Pinney shows how they, and other forms of autobiographical writing, reflect upon or complicate the narrative of Something of Myself. This carefully prepared edition sheds new light on Kipling as a man and writer.« less