Contents Include: Soldiers Three: The God from the Machine Private Learoyd's Story The Big Drunk Draf' The Solid Muldoon With the main Guard In the Matter of a Private Black Jack The Story of the Gadsbys: Poor Dear Mamma The World Without The Tents of Kedar With any Amazement The Garden of Eden Fatima The Valley of the Shadow The Swelling of Jordan L'Envoi In Black and White: Dray Wara Yow Dee The Judgment of Dungara At Howli Thana Gemini At Twenty-Two In flood Time The Sending of Dana Da On the City Wall Joseph Rudyard Kipling 30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936)was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If-" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". 4] 5] Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.