Captains Courageous

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

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

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

Rudyard Kipling