_Captains Courageous_ is a young adult book but _Kim_ is a first rate novel aimed primarily at an adult audience. And _Naulakha_, which Kipling coauthored, is certainly not a children's book (nor very good).
I'm reminded of Shaw's comment on GKC's book about him that every fact one could look up Chesterton got wrong, every fact you couldn…
_Captains Courageous_ is a young adult book but _Kim_ is a first rate novel aimed primarily at an adult audience. And _Naulakha_, which Kipling coauthored, is certainly not a children's book (nor very good).
I'm reminded of Shaw's comment on GKC's book about him that every fact one could look up Chesterton got wrong, every fact you couldn't look up (not Shaw's words) he got right. In a world without the Internet and with less easy access to reference works it isn't surprising if a busy writer sometimes works out of what he knows without actually checking his facts.
In my next post you will see Orwell treating a conjecture as a fact — mistakenly.
One of the interesting things about some of Kipling's work is that it is deliberately written for both children and adults, with features that only the latter are likely to get. I'm thinking of _Puck of Pook's Hill_ and _Rewards and Fairies_, in particular "Marklake Witches."
_Captains Courageous_ is a young adult book but _Kim_ is a first rate novel aimed primarily at an adult audience. And _Naulakha_, which Kipling coauthored, is certainly not a children's book (nor very good).
I'm reminded of Shaw's comment on GKC's book about him that every fact one could look up Chesterton got wrong, every fact you couldn't look up (not Shaw's words) he got right. In a world without the Internet and with less easy access to reference works it isn't surprising if a busy writer sometimes works out of what he knows without actually checking his facts.
In my next post you will see Orwell treating a conjecture as a fact — mistakenly.
One of the interesting things about some of Kipling's work is that it is deliberately written for both children and adults, with features that only the latter are likely to get. I'm thinking of _Puck of Pook's Hill_ and _Rewards and Fairies_, in particular "Marklake Witches."