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.
Novels
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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