{"product_id":"9780877456575","title":"The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1911-19","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourth volume of Rudyard Kipling's letters, now collected and edited for the first time, continues the story of his life from the end of the Edwardian era through the Great War, a crisis in Kipling's life as well as in that of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe years before the war saw the publication of \u003ci\u003eRewards and Fairies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSongs from Books.\u003c\/i\u003e In politics, the great issue was Irish home rule and the fate of Ulster. At the outbreak of the war Kipling devoted himself to the struggle. He wrote patriotic verse, made recruiting speeches, and traveled as a correspondent to the French and Italian fronts. He published no new fiction, only what he wrote as correspondent and propagandist: \u003ci\u003eFrance at War, The Fringes of the Fleet,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Eyes of Asia.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1915 his only son, John, was killed in the Battle of Loos; at the same time Kipling began to suffer from the undiagnosed ulcer that would torment him for the rest of his life. His last volume of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Years Between,\u003c\/i\u003e published in 1919, embodies the suffering and bitterness of these years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019055546608,"sku":"9780877456575","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780877456575","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}