literature

Rudyard Kipling’s Buddhism

By Livia Gershon

Long read as an imperial novel, Kim also reflects Britain’s changing ideas about Buddhist thought and spiritual practice.

https://daily.jstor.org/rudyard-kiplings-buddhism/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_07092026

Books by Rudyard Kipling at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2226

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No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters?

Peter Pan, Christopher Robin and Alice in Wonderland … being the star of a classic story might seem like a dream, but there’s a dark side, argues the author of The Children

by Melissa Albert

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/10/peter-pan-christopher-robin-alice-the-unsettling-stories-of-the-children-behind-fictions-most-enduring-tales

Books in Children's Fiction at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/18

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