Something of Myself
{{short description|Autobiography of Rudyard Kipling}}
{{Infobox Book
| name = Something of Myself
| title_orig = Something of Myself: for my friends known and unknown
| image = Something of Myself 1st edition cover.jpg
| image_caption = First edition cover
| author = Rudyard Kipling
| publisher = Macmillan of London
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| genre = Autobiography
| published = 1937
| media_type = Print (Hardcover)
| pages = 237
| congress = PR4856 .A5 1937c
}}
Something of Myself: for my friends known and unknown is the autobiography of Rudyard Kipling. Kipling wrote it in the last year of his life; the unfinished text was prepared for publication by his wife. It has remained in print since its first publication in 1937.
Creation and publication
Kipling began work on the autobiography on 1 August 1935, and was last reported to work on it (doing revisions) on 26 December of the same year. He died on 18 January 1936. The unfinished manuscript was edited and prepared for publication by his wife, Caroline Starr Balestier. After preliminary printing of selections from the text in a number of newspapers, the book was published by Macmillan, Kipling's established UK publisher, on 21 December 1937.{{cite book|title=Rudyard Kipling - Something of Myself and other Autobiographical Writings|url=https://archive.org/details/rudyardkiplingso00kipl|url-access=registration|chapter=Introduction to "Something of Myself: for my friends known and unknown"|author=Thomas Pinney|editor=Thomas Pinney|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|date=1991|isbn=9780521355155 }}
Kipling had stated the intention to deal in this account with "his life from the point of view of his work". He thus focuses on describing the inspiration, genesis and workmanship of his literary creations while remaining reticent on most facets of his private life that are not directly connected to his works.{{cite book|author=Andrew Lycett|year=2015|title=Rudyard Kipling|publisher=Hachette UK}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_something.htm Introduction and notes on the text by Thomas Pinney (adapted from 1995 Cambridge University Press edition)], on the website of the Kipling Society
Category:1937 non-fiction books
Category:Books by Rudyard Kipling
Category:Books published posthumously
Category:Works about Rudyard Kipling
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