1918. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Contents: The Disturber of Traffic; A Conference of the Powers; My Lord the Elephant; One View of the Question; The Finest Story in the World; His Private Honor; A Matter of Fact; The Lost Legion; In the Rukh; Brugglesmith; Love-o-Women; The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot; Judson and the Empire; and The Children of the Zodiac. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing