Rudyard Kipling, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator Gulliver Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200456-9 Parker's paintings elegantly interpret the British Cockney soldier's eulogy to Gunga Din.

It looks Chestertonian as I write it. As if a world of concrete things were to be gathered into the titular abstraction; or as if Kipling's rightness were presently to be proved remarkable in that ...

Jan Montefiore, Jan Montefiore teaches English Literature at the University of Kent. This book argues that Kipling's writings, at once Victorian conservative and modernist subversive, preaching ...