Kipling focused, however, not on the glories and conquests of empire but on the lives-work and activities, passions and emotions-of ordinary people responding to what were often extraordinary or inexplicable events. His art arrived almost fully revealed in his earliest works. Kipling was a voracious reader of English, French, and American writers, trained by his newspaper experience in the virtues of conciseness and detail. The intervening years at school in England had perhaps increased his sensitivity to the exotic Indian locale and British imperial presence. Many of Rudyard Kipling’s earliest short stories are set in the India of his early childhood years in Bombay and his newspaper days in Lahore.
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