Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author of one of the best-known children’s books of all time had a house in Vermont that’s open for tours this month. British ...

It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. —George Orwell, 1942 My childhood home did not boast many literary ...

(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.) [V]ermont has always drawn famous people who wished they weren’t quite so well known. Here, they’ve sought peace and privacy, and for ...

Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in "If" to "keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you" are regularly ...

Is he hopelessly outdated, a standard-bearer for a discredited part of British history, or a writer with a profound understanding for all humanity? The end of December 2015 marked the 150th ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The rolling hills, lush-velvet green and shrouded in mist, provided inspiration for a young author who came to America to marry his best friend’s sister and build his dream home in Dummerston, Vt. By ...

Some lines never lose their power, no matter how many years pass. Today’s Quote of the Day by Rudyard Kipling comes from his iconic poem If—, a piece of literature that has inspired generations with ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling, a writer sometimes described as the poet of empire. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard ...

Two original watercolour illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, long thought lost, have been rediscovered and will be offered in Roseberys' Old Master, British & European Pictures ...