Author: Rudyard Kipling

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• Rudyard Kipling (4)
  • IN: Kim (1901) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgement Day, Be gentle when 'the heathen' pray To Buddha at Kamakura!
    FROM: Buddha at Kamakura, (1892), Poem, England/ India
  • IN: The Jungle Book (1894) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call!—Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungl
    FROM: Mowgli’s Brothers, (1894), Poem, NULL
  • IN: The Man Who Would Be King (1888) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.”
    FROM: NULL, (1888), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these You bid me please? The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    FROM: The Convert, (None), Poem, NULL
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these You bid me please? The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    FROM: The Convert, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Second Jungle Book (1895) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The stream is shrunk—the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I; With fevered jowl and dusty flank Each jostling each along the bank; And by one drouthy fear made still, Forgoing thought of quest or kill. Now ‘neath his dam the fawn may see, The lean Pack-wolf as cowed as he, And the tall buck, unflinching, note The fangs that tore his father’s throat. The pools are shrunk—the streams are dry, And we be playmates, thou and I, Till yonder cloud—Good Hunting!—loose The rain that breaks our Water Truce.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Light That Failed (1890) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: So we settled it all when the storm was done As comf’y as comf’y could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow’s foot, Because he was five and a man;And that’s how it all began, my dears, And that’s how it all began.
    FROM: Big Barn stories, (None), NULL, NULL
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)
  • IN: Captains Courageous (1897) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old sea-faring men Came to me now and then, With their sagas of the seas.
    FROM: "The Discoverer of the North Cape", (None), Poem, NULL

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• Lauren James (1)
  • IN: The Next Together (2015) Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "They will come back -- come back again, as long as the red Earth rolls. / He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?"
    FROM: "The Sack of the Gods", (1892), Song, England/ India
• James Jones (1)
  • IN: From Here to Eternity (1951) War Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gentlemen-rankers outon a spree Damned from here to Eternity God ha' mercy on such as we, Ba! Yah! Bah!
    FROM: Gentlemen-Rankers, in Barrack-room Ballads, (1892), Poem, England/ India
• T. H. White (1)
  • IN: The Once and Future King (1939) Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: She is not any common earth Water or wood or air, But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye where you and I will fare.
    FROM: Puck's Song, (1906), Poem, England/ India
• Rudyard Kipling (4)
  • IN: Kim (1901) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgement Day, Be gentle when 'the heathen' pray To Buddha at Kamakura!
    FROM: Buddha at Kamakura, (1892), Poem, England/ India
  • IN: The Jungle Book (1894) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call!—Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungl
    FROM: Mowgli’s Brothers, (1894), Poem, NULL
  • IN: The Man Who Would Be King (1888) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.”
    FROM: NULL, (1888), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these You bid me please? The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    FROM: The Convert, (None), Poem, NULL
• Hari Kunzru (1)
  • IN: The Impressionist (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Remember, I can change swiftly. It will all be as it was when I first spoke to thee under Zam-Zammah the great gun--" "As a boy in the dress of white men -- when I first went to the Wonder House. And a second time thou wast a Hindu. What shall the third incarnation be?"
    FROM: Kim, (1901), Novel, England/ India
• Patrick Bishop (1)
  • IN: Follow Me Home (2011) Fiction, War Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, hark to the big drum calling, Follow me - follow me home!
    FROM: "Follow Me 'Ome", (1892), Poem, England/ India
• Teresa Toten (1)
  • IN: The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty-seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
    FROM: If, (1910), Poem, England/ India
• Barney Campbell (2)
  • IN: Rain (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I have made for you a song, And it may be right or wrong, But only you can tell me if it’s true. I have tried for to explain Both your pleasure and your pain, And, Thomas, here’s my best respects to you!
    FROM: To Thomas Atkins, (1890), Poem, UK
• Michael Pryor (1)
  • IN: The Extraordinaries (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Was he not the Friend of the Stars as well as of all the World, crammed to the teeth with dreadful secrets?
    FROM: Kim, (1901), Novel, England/ India
• Alex Grecian (1)
  • IN: The Yard (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: f you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet, Don’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that asks no questions isn’t told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
    FROM: A Smuggler’s Song, (1906), Poem, England/ India
• Lawrence Block (1)
  • IN: The Burglar Who liked to Quote Kipling (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When from ’ouse to ’ouse you’re ’untin’ you must always work in pairs- It ’alves the gain, but safer you will find- For a single man gets bottled on them twisty-wisty stairs. An’ a woman comes and clobs ’im from be’ind. When you’ve turned ’em inside out, an’ it seems beyond a doubt As if there weren’t enough to dust a flute (Cornet: Toot! toot!)- Before you sling your ’ook, at the ’ouse-tops take a look, For it’s underneath the tiles they ’ide the loot. (Chorus.) ’Ow the loot! Bloomin’ loot! That’s the thing to make the boys git up an’ shoot! It’s the same with dogs an’ men, If you’d make ’em come again Clap ’em forward with a Loo! loo! Lulu! Loot! Whoopee! Tear ’im, puppy! Loo! loo! Lulu! Loot! loot! Loot!
    FROM: Loot, (1890), Poem, England/ India
• Ron Childress (1)
  • IN: And West is West (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: East is East, and West is West, and never the two shall meet.
    FROM: The Ballad of East and West, (1889), Poem, England/ India
• Arthur C. & Baxter, Stephen Clarke (1)
  • IN: Time's Eye (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die: But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth The Cities rise again.
    FROM: Cities and Thrones and Powers, (1922), Poem, England/ India
• Jo Walton (1)
  • IN: The King's Peace (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I will have it so that though king, son, and grandson were all slain in one day, still the King's Peace should hold over all England! What is a man that his mere death must upheave a people! We have the Law.
    FROM: Rewards and Fairies, (1910), Novel, England/ India
• Sharyn McCrumb (1)
  • IN: If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him… (1995) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the Himalayan peasant meets the he- bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
    FROM: The Female of the Species, (1911), Poem, England/ India
• John Lutz (1)
  • IN: Urge to Kill (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They change their skies above them, But not their hearts that roam.
    FROM: The Native-Born, (1894), Poem, England/ India
• David Morrell (1)
  • IN: Long Lost (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned.
    FROM: Gentleman-Rankers, (1892), Poem, England/ India
• Bill Pronzini (1)
  • IN: The Stalker (1971) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The sins ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one.
    FROM: Tomlinson, (1892), NULL, England/ India
• Jeffrey Archer (1)
  • IN: Purgatory (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother. And it’s worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. Nine hundred and ninety-nine depend On what the world sees in you, But the Thousandth Man will stand your friend With the whole round world agin you. Tis neither promise nor prayer nor show Will settle the finding for ‘ee Nine hundred and ninety-nine of ‘em go By your looks, or your acts, or your glory. But if he finds you and you find him, The rest of the world don’t matter; For the Thousandth Man will sink or swim With you in any water. You can use his purse with no more talk Than he uses yours for his spendings. And laugh and meet in your daily walk As though there had been no lendings. Nine hundred and ninety-nine of ‘em call For silver and gold in their dealings; But the Thousandth Man he’s worth ‘em all, Because you can show him your feelings. His wrong’s your wrong, and his right’s your right, In season or out of season. Stand up and back it in all men’s sight - With that for your only reason! Nine hundred and ninety-nine can’t bide The shame or mocking or laughter, But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side To the gallows-foot – and after!
    FROM: The Thousandth Man, (1910), Poem, England/ India
• Abir Mukherjee (1)
  • IN: A Rising Man (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Calcutta seems full of "rising men".
    FROM: City of Dreadful Night, (1888), Book, England/ India
• Ben Bova (1)
  • IN: Orion Among the Stars (1995) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap… For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an “Chuck him out, the brute!” But it’s “Saviour of ’is country,” when the guns begin to shoot…
    FROM: Tommy, (1890), Poem, England/ India
• M.J Rose (1)
  • IN: The Reincarnationist (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?
    FROM: The Sack of the Gods, (1892), Poem, India/England
• Lydia Peele (1)
  • IN: The Midnight Cool (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Four things greater than all things are, -- Women and Horses and Power and War.
    FROM: The Ballad of the King's Jest, (1890), Poem, UK
• Steven Rowley (1)
  • IN: Lilly and the Octopus (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now this is the Law of the Jungle, as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
    FROM: The Law for the Wolves, (1895), Poem, UK
• Gene Wolfe (1)
  • IN: The Citadel of the Autarch (1983) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
    FROM: "The Dawn Wind", (1911), Poem, UK
• David Hewson (1)
  • IN: The Seventh Sacrament (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Mithras, God of the Midnight, here where the great bull dies, Look on thy children in darkness. O take our sacrifice! Many roads thou hast fashioned: all of them lead to the Light, Mithras, also a soldier, teach us to die aright!
    FROM: A Song to Mithras: Hymn of the XXX Legion, (1906), Poem, UK
• John Burdett (1)
  • IN: The Last Six Million Seconds (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay!
    FROM: Mandalay, (1890), Poem, UK
• Paul Murray (1)
  • IN: Ghostland (None) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: For where there are Irish there's memory undying, And when we forget, it is Ireland no more!
    FROM: "The Irish Guards", (1923), Poem, UK
• Kate Mosse (1)
  • IN: The Winter Ghosts (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Known unto God
    FROM: Phrase used on the gravestones of unknown soldiers in CWGC cemeteries, (1917), Saying, UK
• Stephen Hunter (1)
  • IN: Time to Hunt (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.
    FROM: Rudyard Kipling, writing in the voice of his son John, KIA, the Somme, at the age of sixteen, (1919), Book, UK
• Marc Cameron (1)
  • IN: Brute Force (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
    FROM: The Man who Was, (1891), Short Story, UK
• James Elliott (1)
  • IN: Daring (2014) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky, And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
    FROM: The Law for the Wolves, (1895), Poem, UK
• William Boyd (1)
  • IN: An Ice-Cream War (1982) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...he hurried desperately, and the islands slipped and slid under his feet, the straits yawned and widened, till he found himself utterly lost in the world's fourth dimension with no hope of return. Yet only a little distance away he could see the old world with the rivers and mountain chains marked according to the Sandhurst rules of map-making.
    FROM: The Brushwood Boy, (1907), Novel, UK
• R. G. Belsky (1)
  • IN: Blonde Ice (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
    FROM: The Female of the Species, (1911), Poem, UK
• William Illsey Atkinson (1)
  • IN: Tommy (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
    FROM: Tommy, (1890), Poem, England/ India
• Nevil Shute (1)
  • IN: Marazan (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock, It is their care that the gear engages, it is their care that the switches lock.
    FROM: The Sons of Martha, (1907), NULL, UK
• Ethel Turner (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: With laughing mouth but tear-wet eye.
    FROM: Evarra and his Gods, (1890), Poem, UK
• James Baldwin (1)
  • IN: The Fire Next Time (1962) Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: Take up the White Man's burden- Ye dare not stoop to less- Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness; By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your Gods and you.
    FROM: The White Man's Burden, (1899), Poem, UK
• Leïla Slimani (1)
  • IN: Lullaby (2018) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Miss Vezzis came from across the Borderline to look after some children who belonged to a lady until a regularly ordained nurse could come out. The lady said Miss Vezzis was a bad, dirty nurse, and inattentive. It never struck her that Miss Vezzis had her own life to lead and her own affairs to worry over, and that these affairs were the most important things in the world to Miss Vezzis.
    FROM: Plain Tales from the Hills, (1888), Novel, UK
• Patricia Scanlan (1)
  • IN: City Girl (1992) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother… But the thousandth man will stand by your side To the gallows-foot— and after!
    FROM: The Thousandth Man, (1910), Poem, UK
• Peter Ackroyd (1)
  • IN: First Light (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But if he spoke it would mean that all this world would end now -- instanto -- fall down on your head. These things are not allowed. The door is shut.
    FROM: The Finest Story in the World', (1891), NULL, UK
• Kay Hooper (1)
  • IN: Zach's Law (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now this is the Law of the Jungle-- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
    FROM: The Law for the Wolves, (1895), Poem, UK
• Elliott James (1)
  • IN: Daring (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: NOW this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky, And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
    FROM: The Law for the Wolves, (1895), Poem, UK
• Lydia Peelle (1)
  • IN: The Midnight Cool (2017) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Four things greater than all things are,— Women and Horses and Power and War.
    FROM: “The Ballad of the King’s Jest”, (1890), Poem, India/England
• Leila Slimani (1)
  • IN: The Perfect Nanny (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Miss Vezzis came from across the Borderline to look after some children who belonged to a lady until a regularly ordained nurse could come out. The lady said Miss Vezzis was a bad, dirty nurse, and inattentive. It never struck her that Miss Vezzis had her own life to lead and her own affairs to worry over, and that these affairs were the most important things in the world to Miss Vezzis.
    FROM: Plain Tales from the Hill, (1888), Book, UK
• Jack London (1)
  • IN: The Cruise of the Snark (1911) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ~~Yes have heard the beat of the offshore wind, And the thresh of the deep-sea rain; You have heard the song -- how long! how long! Pull out on the trail again!
    FROM: L'Envoi, (1919), Poem, UK