Profiles five short stories by "Jungle Book" author Rudyard Kipling, providing plot summaries, character guides, and several works of criticism on each, and includes a Kipling biography and primary and secondary bibliographies.
A brief biography of the teller of tales about East and West, from his early years in India and schooling in England to his later success as reporter, poet, and short story writer.
A fictionalized biography of eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, who remembers his boyhood and the events leading up to World War I, as he lies dying on a battlefield in France.