Born to cultured Anglo-Indian parents, Rudyard Kipling went from a pampered infancy in India to a Dickensian childhood with cruel fosterparents in England, and on to a classic British boarding school complete with curmudgeonly masters and bullying classmates. He came through scarred but toughened, worked as a journalist in India, and began churning out the works that would make him a household name around the world - poems like “If” and “Gunga Din,” stories like “The Elephant’s Child” and “The Man Who Would Be King,” and his masterpiece, the novel Kim. 鲁迪亚德·吉卜林（Rudyard Kipling）的父母都是有教养的英裔印度人，他从印度一个娇生惯养的婴儿期，到了英国一个有着残忍养父母的狄更斯式童年，后来又到了一所典型的英国寄宿学校，学校里有乖戾的主人和恃强凌弱的同学。他经历了伤痕累累但意志坚强的磨难，在印度做了一名记者，并开始大量创作将使他在世界各地家喻户晓的作品——如《如果》和《贡嘎丁》、如《大象的孩子》和《将成为国王的人》等故事，以及他的杰作《金》。