1910. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. A Diversity of Creatures intersperses poetry with short stories. Contents: As Easy as A.B.C.; MacDonough's Song; Friendly Brook; The Land; In the Same Boat; 'Helen all Alone'; The Honors of War; The Children; The Dog Hervey; The Comforters; The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat; The Press; In the Presence; Jobson's Amen; Regulus; A Translation; The Edge of the Evening; Rebirth; The Horse Marines; The Legend of Mirth; My Son's Wife; The Floods; The Fabulists; The Vortex; The Song of Seven Cities; 'Swept and Garnished'; Mary Postgate; and The Beginnings. Letters of Travel contains: From Tideway to Tideway (1892)- In Sight of Monadnock; Across a Continent; The Edge of the East; Our Overseas Men; Some Earthquakes; Half-a-Dozen Pictures; Captains Courageous; On One Side Only; Leaves from a Winter Note-Book; Letters to the Family (1908)-The Road to Quebec; A People at Home; Cities and Spaces; Newspapers and Democracy; Labor; The Fortunate Towns; Mountains and the Pacific; A Conclusion; Egypt of the Magicians (1914)-Sea Travel; A Return to the East; A Serpent of Old Nile; Up the River; Dead Kings; The Face of the Desert; and The Riddle of the Empire. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.