This pocket-sized selection of Rudyard Kipling s verse contains not only this classic, but many of his greatest poems, in testimony to a writer who possessed a precocious gift for rhyme and a brilliant ear for language, coupled with a pin-sharp use of spare, vivid imagery.

This pocket-sized selection includes: `Tommy , `The Way Through the Woods , `Recessional , `Boots , `The Female of the Species , `Mandalay , `Gunga Din , The Young British Soldier and many more of Kipling s greatest poems.

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