Conclusion

Abstract

The focus of this study has been a series of novels and stories that Kipling produced between 1888 and 1901; an attempt has been made to show that a major unifying element in these works is the presence in each of adolescent materials. There has been a further attempt to trace the conceptual development in the writings of this period, the increasing sophistication in Kipling’s view of adolescence, and to evaluate the artistic growth that this development represents. In addition, the autobiographical sources of Kipling’s fiction have been introduced, where such supplementary information helped identify the raw material of his stories and novels or illuminate the keenness of passion he sometimes achieved in them.