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The East to West flow of novels has swollen from a trickle to a stream in the past 15 months. From Japan have come Some Prefer Nettles and Homecoming, together with a reissue of The Honorable Picnic. A Chinese woman living in Hong Kong drew a portrait of present-day...
The most severe case of India fever in literature since Rudyard Kipling was brought down by it is undoubtedly that of Novelist John Masters (TIME, March 28). His goal is as massive as it is simple: to tell the whole story of the English in India in 35 historical novels...
In the larger theater of World War II, things happened faster. At 29, he was a lieutenant colonel and acting brigade commander in General Wingate's Chindits in Burma. He retired in 1948. India had taught him his trade; if at his new trade of novelist he is no...
The Life of Rudyard Kipling, by C. E. Carrington, went a long way toward explaining the mind, the character (and so the work) of the great British writer who was not afraid to celebrate character, whether in his countrymen or in his country.
The Life of Rudyard Kipling, by C. E. Carrington. Author Carrington has taken up the biographer's burden, and sent forth the best yet on Kipling (TIME, Nov. 28).