Plain tales from the hills
By: Rudyard Kipling
Series: Clipper
Publisher: W F Howes Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781471261220
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: Fascinating, funny, tragic, immensely readable and witty, these stories provide an invaluable insight into life in India during the British Raj. Originally written for the "Lahore Civil and Military Gazette", the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of 'heat and bewilderment and wasted effort and broken faith'. He writes brilliantly and hauntingly about the barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience but implacably crushed.
Notes: Published by W.F. Howes Ltd under the Clipper imprint.
Table of contents: title: Lispeth; title: Three and; title: an extra; title: Thrown away; title: Miss Youghal's Sais; title: Bitters neat; title: 'Yoked with an unbeliever'; title: False dawn; title: The rescue of Pluffles; title: Cupid's arrows; title: The three musketeers; title: His chance in life; title: Watches of the night; title: The other man; title: Haunted subalterns; title: Consequences; title: The conversion of Aurelian McGoggin; title: The taking of Lungtungpen; title: A germ-destroyer; title: Kidnapped; title: The arrest of Lieutenant Golightly; title: In the house of Suddhoo; title: His wedded wife; title: The broken-link handicap; title: Beyond the Pale; title: In error; title: A bank fraud; title: Tods' amendment; title: The daughter of the regiment; title: In the pride of his youth; title: Pig; title: The rout of the White Hussars; title: The Bronckhorst divorce-case; title: Venus Annodomini; title: The Bisara of Pooree; title: A friend's friend; title: The gate of the hundred sorrows; title: The madness of Private Ortheris; title: The story of Muhammad Din; title: On the strength of a likeness; title: Wressly of the Foreign Office; title: By word of mouth; title: To be filed for reference.