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Sep 2012
20m 23s

Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of short stories'. In this discussion of Rudyard Kipling, Julian acknowledges Kipling's lack popularity with readers, but argues for the greatness of short stories from across his ouvre and positions them as precursors to modernism. 
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