Beastliness
Harry Ricketts, 16 March 1989
Rudyard Kipling
by Martin Seymour-Smith.
Macdonald, 373 pp., £16.95, February 1989,0 356 15852 7 Show More
by Martin Seymour-Smith.
Macdonald, 373 pp., £16.95, February 1989,
“... for instance, is both meticulous and plausible. The same can hardly be said of Martin Seymour-Smith in his new critical biography of Kipling. In addition to being one of the most lopsided lives ever written – 23 chapters on the first forty years, only two chapters on the last thirty – this is also one of the most incorrigible in its ... ”