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21 Free Rudyard Kipling Books [PDF]

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Looking for Rudyard Kipling Books? Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist born in Bombay in 1865, and he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.

Here you will find the most complete free library of Kipling's work in PDF. The collection covers his novels, his children's books like The Jungle Book and Just So Stories, his short story collections, and his ballads and poems.

Read Kim, Captains Courageous, The Man Who Would Be King, or the poems If, Mandalay, and Gunga Din, without leaving this page. Every book is in the public domain and free to download.

Rudyard Kipling Novels

Kipling's novels blend adventure with the textures of colonial India and the wider British empire. The picaresque Kim is his most celebrated long work, while Captains Courageous and The Light That Failed show his range from sea story to psychological portrait.

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    Kim

    Kim

    Kipling's masterpiece follows an orphaned boy through the bazaars and mountains of colonial India as he becomes a British spy and the disciple of a Tibetan lama. The novel blends espionage with a spiritual quest that many readers consider Kipling's finest long work.

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 358 pages 14.73 MB
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  • Captains Courageous

    A spoiled millionaire's son falls from an ocean liner and is rescued by a Gloucester fishing schooner. The sea voyage that follows turns the boy into a man and gives readers one of Kipling's most vivid tales of work and character.

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 344 pages 7.71 MB
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  • The Light That Failed

    Kipling's first novel traces a war artist who loses his sight just as fame arrives. The story draws on his own years as a journalist and remains one of his most personal works.

    Rudyard Kipling

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  • Stalky & Co.

    Set in an English boarding school modelled on Kipling's own United Services College

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The Jungle Books & Children's Classics

The stories of Mowgli, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and the Just So fables shaped how generations of readers discovered the wild. These are the titles most searched under the jungle books by Rudyard Kipling, and they remain the core of his legacy for young readers.

  • The Jungle Book

    The original Mowgli stories together with fables like Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Toomai of the Elephants. The tales that shaped how generations of readers imagined the Indian jungle and the animals inside it.

    Rudyard Kipling

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  • The Second Jungle Book

    Eight more fables from the jungle

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 344 pages 13.63 MB
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  • Just So Stories

    Twelve origin fables written for Kipling's own children. How the Whale Got His Throat

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  • Puck of Pook's Hill

    Two English children meet the fairy Puck and hear stories from the Roman legions

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  • Rewards and Fairies

    The sequel to Puck of Pook's Hill

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Short Story Collections

Kipling is often called one of the great innovators of the English short story. Plain Tales from the Hills launched his career, and collections like Life's Handicap, The Day's Work, and Soldiers Three kept him writing at top form for decades.

  • Plain Tales from the Hills

    Forty short stories from Kipling's earliest years as a journalist in Lahore. The collection launched his career and still offers the sharpest portrait of Anglo-Indian life in print.

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 322 pages 10.47 MB
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  • The Man Who Would Be King

    Two British adventurers cross into the wild country beyond Afghanistan with a plan to become kings. One of the most famous long stories in English fiction and the basis for the John Huston film.

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 27 pages 0.09 MB
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  • Life's Handicap

    Twenty-eight stories gathered in 1891

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  • The Day's Work

    Twelve stories that show Kipling's fascination with the people and machines that keep the world running. Includes The Bridge-Builders

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  • Soldiers Three

    Tales of three British soldiers serving in colonial India

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 363 pages 9.62 MB
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  • Many Inventions

    Fourteen stories from 1893 that mark Kipling's transition from the Indian tales to a wider canvas. Includes The Finest Story in the World and In the Rukh

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 407 pages 11.41 MB
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Poetry & Ballads

From Barrack-Room Ballads to The Seven Seas, Kipling's verse put soldiers, sailors, and the rhythms of empire on the page. This section gathers the collections that contain his most famous poems, including If, Mandalay, Gunga Din, and Recessional.

  • Barrack-Room Ballads

    The volume that made Kipling the most quoted poet of his generation. Contains Gunga Din

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 145 pages 6.33 MB
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  • The Seven Seas

    Kipling's 1896 collection of verse covering the Royal Navy

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 297 pages 8.16 MB
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  • Departmental Ditties

    Kipling's first book of verse

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 226 pages 9.08 MB
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  • The Five Nations

    A volume written during the Boer War that gathers Kipling's imperial poetry at its most ambitious. Includes Recessional

    Rudyard Kipling

    Format: PDF 273 pages 9.65 MB
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Travel Writing & Non-Fiction

Before he was a global novelist, Kipling was a newspaper reporter in Lahore and a travel correspondent across Asia and America. These volumes show the journalist behind the fiction and include his short autobiography, Something of Myself.

Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most influential writers of the late Victorian and modernist period, and his work is still in print almost ninety years after his death in 1936. The PDFs gathered here let you read his full range without cost.

For more authors from the same era, explore our full Classic Authors library.

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