![]() ![]() ![]() Spoilt teenage son of millionaires, Harvey Cheyne, is irritating the crew on a transatlantic liner before going for a walk along the deck when – whoops – he is washed overboard by a big wave. Like a lot of Kipling’s fictions, it’s long on journalistic details and specialised jargon, short on plot, extremely light on pyschology. ![]() It’s short, only ten chapters and 153 pages in the Oxford University paperback edition I read. Late in 1896 he began serialisation of a new prose work, Captains Courageous. Here he built a cabin, had children, was happy, wrote the two Jungle Books and continued pouring forth poems and short stories. Kipling moved to America in 1892, settling in Brattleborough, a village in rural Vermont, on the estate belonging to the family of his new American wife, Caroline (Carrie) Balestier. ![]()
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