Rudyard Kipling: Merlin’s Isle
Rudyard Kipling originated the genre of books where realistic children stumble into magic adventure. Suddenly magic intersects with everyday life—turns out there’s a snowstorm going on in the back of a wardrobe, or an owl brings you a letter inviting you to Hogwarts! He was followed by E. Nesbit, C.S. Lewis’s tales of Narnia and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. But Kipling did it first.
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Rudyard Kipling designed his house, Naulakha, to ride the Vermont hills like a ship on a wave. Here he wrote the Jungle Books and the beloved Just So Stories.
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