To prepare well for your trip, learning about the culture is important! LEC invites everyone who has the opportunity to go on a language study trip to England to learn a little more about the author of the famous Jungle Book: Rudyard Kipling.
A language study trip near Portsmouth to follow in the writer’s footsteps
The man who would go on to become one of the most famous English authors of the 20th century was born in 1865 in Bombay, shortly after his parents had arrived in what was still, at the time, a British colony.
At the age of six, the young man, as was the custom, left his homeland to returnto England: from then on, he was educated in Portsmouth, in the countyof Hampshire (one of the destinations LEC offers for language study abroad in England).
Kipling, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in Literature
Returning to India at the age of 17, the young man became a journalist in Lahore, then in Allahabad, before returning once again toEngland. Author of memorable short stories, such as “The Man Who Would Be King” in 1888, and novels no less memorable, such as “Kim” in 1901, he left a lasting impression through his gift for storytelling, which broke with the conventions of the time. So much so that he became the first English-language author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature —and the youngest!—in 1907, at just 42 years old.
A piece of prose celebrating British imperialism
But Rudyard Kipling was also an exceptional writer in the service of British imperialism — George Orwell even went so far as to call him the “prophet of British imperialism.” It was only toward the end of his life that the harshness of his nationalism began to soften, as seen in his Travel Letters in 1920 and his Tales of Land and Sea in 1923.
A language study trip to get to know the man and the author better
A language study trip to England can be a chance to discover the legacy of this great writer, as well as that of many other authors who left their mark on their century: LEC is waiting for you! Don’t hesitate to order our brochure —it’s completely free!