Rudyard Kipling bibliography

Books

• The City of Dreadful Night, short story – later published as The City of the Dreadful Night in Little Blue Book No. 357
• Departmental Ditties, poetry
• Plain Tales from the Hills
• Soldiers Three
• The Story of the Gadsbys
• In Black and White
• Under the Deodars
• The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales – including "The Man Who Would Be King"
• Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories – including "Baa Baa, Black Sheep"
• Life's Handicap
• American Notes, non-fiction
• Letters of Marque
• The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places – A.H. Wheeler & Co
• Mine Own People
• * "Bimi"
• * "Namgay Doola"
• * "The Recrudescence of Imray"
• * "Moti Guj-Mutineer"
• * "The Mutiny of the Mavericks"
• * "At the End of the Passage"
• * "The Man Who Was"
• * "A Conference of Powers
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• * "The Mark of the Beast
• * "The Head of the District"
• Barrack-Room Ballads, poetry
• Many Inventions
• The Jungle Book – including Mowgli stories, here marked "":
• * "Mowgli's Brothers"
• * "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack"
• * "Kaa's Hunting"
• * "Road-Song of the Bandar-Log"
• * "Tiger! Tiger!"
• * "Mowgli's Song That He Sang at the Council Rock When He Danced on Shere Khan's Hide"
• * "The White Seal"
• * "Lukannon"
• * "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
• * "Darzee's Chaunt "
• * "Toomai of the Elephants"
• * "Shiv and the Grasshopper "
• * "Her Majesty's Servants" – originally titled "Servants of the Queen"
• * "Parade-Song of the Camp Animals"
• The Second Jungle Book – including Mowgli stories, here marked "":
• * "How Fear Came"
• * "The Law of the Jungle"
• * "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat"
• * "A Song of Kabir"
• * "Letting in the Jungle"
• * "Mowgli's Song Against People"
• * "The Undertakers"
• * "A Ripple Song"
• * "The King's Ankus"
• * "The Song of the Little Hunter"
• * "Quiquern"
• * "'Angutivaun Taina'"
• * "Red Dog"
• * "Chil's Song"
• * "The Spring Running"
• * "The Outsong"
• The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
• The Seven Seas, poetry
• The Day's Work
• A Fleet in Being
• The Brushwood Boy, story from 1895, illus. Orson Lowell; US only?
• Stalky & Co.
• From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel, non-fiction
• Just So Stories for Little Children
• * "How the Whale Got His Throat" – First published in St Nicholas Magazine, December 1897, as "How the Whale Got His Tiny Throat"
• * "How the Camel Got His Hump"
• * "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin"
• * "How the Leopard Got His Spots"
• * "The Elephant's Child"
• * "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"
• * "The Beginning of the Armadillos"
• * "How the First Letter Was Written"
• * "How the Alphabet Was Made"
• * "The Crab That Played With the Sea"
• * "The Cat That Walked by Himself"
• * "The Butterfly That Stamped"
• * "The Tabu Tale"
• The Five Nations, poetry
• Traffics and Discoveries, 12 stories
• With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. – ""
• They, story from Traffics and Discoveries
• Puck of Pook's Hill
• The Brushwood Boy, 1895 story, illus. F. H. Townsend; UK and US
• Actions and Reactions

• , with W. Heath Robinson
• Rewards and Fairies
• A History of England, non-fiction, with Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher
• Songs from Books
• As Easy as A.B.C., science-fiction short story
• The Fringes of the Fleet, non-fiction
• Sea Warfare, non-fiction
• A Diversity of Creatures
• The Years Between, poetry
• Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides
• The Irish Guards in the Great War, non-fiction
• Debits and Credits
• A Book of Words, non-fiction
• Thy Servant a Dog
• Limits and Renewals
• Tales of India, illus. Paul Strayer
• Something of Myself, autobiography
• The Muse Among the Motors, poetry – unknown first publication as a whole

  Novels

• The Light that Failed
• Captains Courageous
• Kim

  Collections

Autobiographies and speeches

• A Book of Words
• Something of Myself
• Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words, ed. Thomas Pinney, ELT Press

  Short story collections

• Quartette – with his father, mother, and sister
• Plain Tales from the Hills
• Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White
• The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales
• Under the Deodars
• Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories
• Mine Own People
• Life's Handicap
• Many Inventions
• The Jungle Book
• The Second Jungle Book
• The Day's Work
• Stalky & Co.
• Just So Stories
• Traffics and Discoveries
• Puck of Pook's Hill – children's historical fantasy short stories
• Actions and Reactions
• Abaft the Funnel
• Rewards and Fairies – historical fantasy short stories
• The Eyes of Asia
• A Diversity of Creatures
• Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides
• Debits and Credits
• Thy Servant a Dog
• Limits and Renewals

  Military collections

• A Fleet in Being
• France at War
• The New Army in Training
• Sea Warfare
• The War in the Mountains
• The Graves of the Fallen
• The Irish Guards in the Great War

  Poetry collections

• Schoolboy Lyrics
• Echoes – with his sister, Alice
• Departmental Ditties
• Barrack-Room Ballads
• The Seven Seas
• An Almanac of Twelve Sports
• The Five Nations
• Collected Verse
• Songs from Books
• The Years Between

• Travel collections

• From Sea to Sea – Letters of Travel: 1887–1889
• Letters of Travel: 1892–1913
• Souvenirs of France
• Brazilian Sketches: 1927

  Most complete collected sets

• The Outward Bound Edition, 1897–1937 – 36 volumes
• The Edition de Luxe, 1897–1937 – 38 volumes
• The Bombay Edition, 1913–38 – 31 volumes
• The Sussex Edition, 1937–39 – 35 volumes
• The Burwash Edition, 1941 – 28 volumes

Poems

His own collections

• Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, 1886.
• Barrack Room Ballads, 1889, republished with additions at various times.
• The Seven Seas and Further Barrack-Room Ballads, in various editions 1891–96.
• The Five Nations, with some new and some reprinted poems, 1903.
• Twenty-two original 'Historical Poems' contributed to C.R.L. Fletcher's A History of England, 1911.
• Songs from Books, 1912.
• The Years Between, 1919.

  Posthumous collections

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• A Choice of Kipling's Verse, edited by T. S. Eliot.
• Early verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879–1889 : unpublished, uncollected, and rarely collected poems, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986.
• The Surprising Mr Kipling, edited by Brian Harris, 2014

  Individual poems

• "The Absent-Minded Beggar"
• "The Advertisement"
• "An American"
• "The American Rebellion"
• "Anchor Song"
• "Angutivaun Taina"
• "The Answer"
• "The Anvil"
• "Arithmetic on the Frontier"
• "Army Headquarters"
• "Arterial"
• "As the Bell Clinks"
• "An Astrologer's Song"
• "At His Execution"
• "Azrael's Count"
• "Back to the Army Again"
• "The Ballad of Boh Da Thone"
• "The Ballad of Bolivar"
• "A Ballad of Burial"
• "The Ballad of the Cars"
• "The Ballad of the "Clampherdown""
• "The Ballad of East and West"
• "Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House"
• "A Ballad of Jakko Hill"
• "The Ballad of the King's Jest"
• "The Ballad of the King's Mercy"
• "The Ballad of Minepit Shaw"
• "The Ballad of the Red Earl"
• "Banquet Night"
• "Beast and Man in India"
• "The Bee-Boy's Song"
• "The Bees and Flies"
• "Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm"
• "The Beginner"
• "The Beginnings"
• "The Bells and Queen Victoria"
• "The Bell Buoy"
• "The Benefactors"
• "Belts"
• "The Betrothed"
• "Big Steamers"
• "Bill 'awkins"
• "Birds of Prey March"
• "The Birthright"
• "Blue Roses"
• "Bobs"
• "Boots"
• "The Bother"
• "The Boy Scouts' Patrol Song"
• "The Braggart"
• "Bridge-Guard in the Karroo"
• "A British-Roman Song"
• "The Broken Men"
• "Brookland Road"
• "Brown Bess"
• "Buddha at Kamakura"
• "The Burden"
• "The Burial"
• "Butterflies"
• "By the Hoof of the Wild Goat"
• "Cain and Abel"
• "The Captive"
• "Carmen Circulare"
• "A Carol"
• "Cells"
• "The Centaurs"
• "Certain Maxims of Hafiz"
• "The Changelings"
• "Chant-Pagan"
• "Chapter Headings"
• "A Charm"
• "Chartres Windows"
• "The Children's Song"
• "A Child's Garden"
• "Cholera Camp"
• "Christmas in India"
• "Cities and Thrones and Powers"
• "The City of Sleep"
• "Cleared"
• "The Coastwise Lights"
• "A Code of Morals"
• "The Coiner"
• "Cold Iron"
• "Columns"
• "The Comforters"
• "The Consolations of Memory"
• "Contradictions"
• "The Conundrum of the Workshops"
• "A Counting-Out Song"
• "Covenant"
• "The Craftsman"
• "Cruisers"
• "Cuckoo Song"
• "The Cure"
• "Dane-geld"
• "Danny Deever"
• "Darzee's Chaunt"
• "The Dawn Wind"
• "The Day's Work"
• "The Dead King"
• "A Death-Bed"
• "The Declaration of London"
• "Dedication"
• "A Dedication"
• "The Deep-Sea Cables"
• "Delilah"
• "A Departure"
• "The Derelict"
• "The Destroyers"
• "Dinah in Heaven"
• "The Disciple"
• "Divided Destinies"
• "Doctors"
• "The Dove of Dacca"
• "The Dutch in the Medway"
• "The Dying Chauffeur"
• "Eddi's Service"
• "Edgehill Fight"
• "The Egg-Shell"
• "En-Dor"
• "England's Answer"
• "The English Flag"
• "The 'eathen"
• "Evarra and His Gods"
• "The Expert"
• "The Explanation"
• "The Explorer"
• "The Fabulists"
• "The Fairies' Siege"
• "The Fall of Jock Gillespie"
• "Farewell and adieu..."
• "Fastness"
• "The Feet of the Young Men"
• "The Female of the Species"
• "The Fires"
• "The First Chantey"
• "The Flight"
• "The Floods"
• "The Flowers"
• "Follow Me 'ome"
• "For All We Have And Are"
• "Ford O'Kabul River"
• "For to Admire"
• "The Four Angels"
• "Four-Feet"
• "The Four Points"
• "Frankie's Trade"
• "The French Wars"
• "Fuzzy-Wuzzy"
• "The Galley-Slave"
• "Gallio's Song"
• "Gehazi"
• "General Joubert"
• "A General Summary"
• "Gentlemen-Rankers"
• "Gertrude's Prayer"
• "Gethsemane"
• "Giffen's Debt"
• "The Gift of Sea"
• "The Gipsy Trail"
• "Gipsy Vans"
• "The Glory of the Garden"
• "The Gods of the Copybook Headings"
• "The Grave of the Hundred Head"
• "Great-Heart"
• "The Greek National Anthem"
• "Gunga Din"
• "Half-Ballad of Waterval"
• "Harp Song of the Dane Women"
• "Helen All Alone"
• "Heriot's Ford"
• "The Heritage"
• "The Holy War"
• "The Hour of the Angel"
• "The Houses"
• "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack"
• "Hyaenas"
• "Hymn Before Action"
• "Hymn to Physical Pain"
• "The Idiot Boy"
• "If—"
• "I Keep Six Honest..."
• "An Imperial Rescript"
• "In the Matter of One Compass"
• "In the Neolithic Age"
• "In Springtime"
• "The Instructor"
• "The Inventor"
• "The Irish Guards"
• "The Jacket"
• "James I"
• "Jane's Marriage"
• "The Jester"
• "Jubal and Tubal Cain"
• "The Juggler's Song"
• "The Jungle Books"
• "The Junk and the Dhow"
• "Justice"
• "The Justice's Tale"
• "Just So Stories"
• "Kim"
• "The King"
• "The Kingdom"
• "The King's Job"
• "The King's Task"
• "Kitchener's School"
• "The Ladies"
• "Lady Geraldine's Hardship"
• "The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief"
• "The Land"
• "The Landau"
• "The Last Chantey"
• "The Last Department"
• "The Last Lap"
• "The Last Ode"
• "The Last of the Light Brigade"
• "The Last Rhyme of True Thomas"
• "The Last Suttee"
• "Late Came the God"
• "The Law of the Jungle "
• "The Legend of Evil"
• "The Legend of the Foreign Office"
• "The Legend of Mirth"
• "A Legend of Truth"
• "L'envoi"
• "L'envoi to "Life's Handicap"
• "The Lesson"
• "Lichtenberg"
• "The Light That Failed"
• "The Liner She's a Lady"
• "The Long Trail"
• "Loot"
• "Lord Roberts"
• "The Lost Legion"
• "The Lovers' Litany"
• "The Love Song of Har Dyal"
• "The Lowestoft Boat"
• "Lukannon"
• "Macdonough's Song"
• "The Man Who Could Write"
• "Mandalay"
• "Many Inventions"
• "The Mare's Nest"
• "The Married Man"
• "The Mary Gloster"
• "Mary, Pity Women!"
• "Mary's Son"
• "The Masque of Plenty"
• "The Master-Cook"
• "M'Andrew's Hymn"
• "The Men That Fought at Minden"
• "The Merchantmen"
• "Merrow Down"
• "Mesopotamia"
• "Mine Sweepers"
• "The Miracles"
• "The Moon of Other Days"
• "The Moral"
• "Morning Song in the Jungle"
• "The Mother-Lodge"
• "Mother o' Mine"
• "The Mother's Son"
• "Mowgli's Song"
• "Mowgli's Song Against People"
• "Mulholland's Contract"
• "Municipal"
• "My Boy Jack"
• "My Father's Chair"
• "My Lady's Law"
• "My New-Cut Ashlar"
• "My Rival"
• "The Native Born"
• "A Nativity"
• "Natural Theology"
• "The Naulahka"
• "The Necessitarian"
• "Neighbours"
• "The New Nighthood"
• "Norman and Saxon"
• "The North Sea Patrol"
• "La Nuit Blanche"
• "The Nursing Sister"
• "The Old Issue"
• "Old Mother Laidinwool"
• "An Old Song"
• "The Oldest Song"
• "One Viceroy Resigns"
• "The Only Son"
• "Oonts"
• "Our Fathers Also"
• "Our Fathers of Old"
• "The Outlaws"
• "Outsong in the Jungle"
• "A Pageant of Elizabeth"
• "Pagett, M.P."
• "The Palace"
• "Parade-Song of the Camp-Animals"
• "The Peace of Dives"
• "The Penalty"
• "Pharaoh and the Sergeant"
• "Philadelphia"
• "A Pict Song"
• "A Pilgrim's Way"
• "The Pink Dominoes"
• "The Pirates in England"
• "The Playmate"
• "The Plea of the Simla Dancers"
• "Poceidon's Law"
• "Poor Honest Men"
• "The Portant"
• "Possibilities"
• "The Post That Fitted"
• "The Power of the Dog"
• "The Prairie"
• "The Prayer"
• "The Prayer of Miriam Cohen"
• "Prelude"
• "A Preface"
• "The Press"
• "The Pro-Consuls"
• "The Prodigal Son"
• "The Progress of the Spark"
• "Prophets at Home"
• "Public Waste"
• "Puck's Song"
• "The Puzzler"
• "The Queen's Men"
• "The Question"
• "The Rabbi's Song"
• "Rebirth"
• "The Recall"
• "A Recantation"
• "Recessional"
• "Rector's Memory"
• "The Reeds of Runnymede"
• "The Reformers"
• "The Return"
• "The Return of the Children"
• "The Rhyme of the Three Captains"
• "The Rhyme of the Three Sealers"
• "Rimini"
• "Rimmon"
• "A Ripple Song"
• "The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer"
• "The Rivers Tale"
• "Road-Song of the Bandar-Log"
• "The Roman Centurion's Song"
• "Romulus and Remus"
• "Route Marchin'"
• "The Rowers"
• "The Runes on the Weland's Sword"
• "The Run of Downs"
• "The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin"
• "Russia to the Pacifists"
• "The Sacrifice of Er-Heb"
• "Sappers"
• "A School Song"
• "Screw-Guns"
• "The Sea And the Hills"
• "Seal Lullaby"
• "The Sea-Wife"
• "The Second Voyage"
• "Sepulchral"
• "The Sergeant's Weddin'"
• "A Servant When He Reigneth"
• "Sestina of the Tramp-Royal"
• "Settler"
• "Seven Watchmen"
• "Shillin' a Day"
• "Sir Richard's Song"
• "A Smuggler's Song"
• "Snarleyow"
• "Soldier an' Sailor Too"
• "Soldier, Soldier"
• "The Song at Cock-Crow"
• "A Song in Storm"
• "The Song of the Banjo"
• "The Song of the Cities"
• "The Song of the Dead"
• "Song of Diego Valdez"
• "The Song of the English"
• "Song of the Fifth River"
• "Song of the Galley-Slaves"
• "A Song of Kabir"
• "The Song of the Little Hunter"
• "Song of the Men's Side"
• "The Song of the Old Guard"
• "Song of the Red War-Boat"
• "The Song of Seven Cities"
• "Song of Seventy Horses"
• "The Song of the Sons"
• "A Song of Travel"
• "A Song of the White Men"
• "Song of the Wise Children"
• "The Song of the Women"
• "The Songs of the Lathes"
• "The Sons of Martha"
• "South Africa"
• "The Spies' March"
• "A St. Helen Lullaby"
• "The Story of Ung"
• "The Story of Uriah"
• "Study of Elevation, In Indian Ink"
• "The Survival"
• "Sussex"
• "A Tale of Two Cities"
• "Tarrant Moss"
• "Things and the Man"
• "Thorkild's Song"
• "The Thousandth Man"
• "A Three-Part Song"
• "The Threshold"
• "Tin Fish"
• "To the City of Bombay"
• "To the Companions"
• "Together"
• "To James Whitcomb Riley"
• "To a Lady, Persuading Her to a Car"
• "To Motorists"
• "To T. A."
• "The Totem"
• "To Thomas Atkins"
• "To the True Romance"
• "To the Unknown Goddess"
• "To Wolcott Balestier"
• "Tomlinson"
• "Tommy"
• "The Tour"
• "The Trade"
• "A Translation"
• "A Tree Song"
• "Troopin'"
• "The Truce of the Bear"
• "A Truthful Song"
• "Two Kopjes"
• "Two Months"
• "The Two-Sided Man"
• "Ulster"
• "The Undertaker's Horse"
• "Untimely"
• "The Vampire"
• "The Verdicts"
• "The Veterans"
• "The Vineyard"
• "The Virginity"
• "The Wage-Slaves"
• "The Way Through the Woods"
• "We and They"
• "The Wet Litany"
• "What Happened"
• "What the People Said"
• "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted"
• "When the Great Ark"
• "When the Journey Was Intended To the City"
• "When 'Omer Smote..."
• "The Widower"
• "White Horses"
• "The White Man's Burden"
• "The Widow's Party"
• "The Widow at Windsor"
• "Wilful Missing"
• "The Winners"
• "The Wishing-Caps"
• "With Drake in the Tropics"
• "With Scindia to Delphi"
• "You Mustn't Swim..."
• "The Young British Soldier"
• "Zion"