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An edition of Plain tales from the hills (1888)

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3rd ed.

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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.

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Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
310

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Subjects

Fiction, History, British, Correspondence, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Social life and customs, Soldiers, British Occupation of India (1765-1947) fast (OCoLC)fst01352145, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947, fiction, India, fiction, Indian soldiers, English fiction, Histoire, Romans, nouvelles, Britanniques, English literature, English Short stories, Long Now Manual for Civilization

People

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Lowell Thomas (1892-)

Places

India, Inde

Times

British occupation, 1765-1947, 19th century, 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)

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Plain Tales from the Hills
December 31, 2005, Dodo Press
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Plain tales from the hills
1999-08-01, Project Gutenberg, NetLibrary
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Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics)
December 30, 1991, Penguin Classics
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Plain Tales From the Hills
1964, Macmillan & Co Ltd.
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Plain tales from the hills
1920, Doubleday, Page
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Plain tales from the hills
1910, Rand, McNally
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Plain tales from the hills.
1909, Nottingham society
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Plain tales from the hills.
1909, Edinburgh Society
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Plain tales from the hills
1900, Registered Editions Guild
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Plain tales from the hills
1900, A. L. Burt
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Plain tales from the hills
1899-01-01, University of California Libraries
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Plain tales from the hills
1890, Macmillan
in English - 3rd ed.

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Table of Contents

Lisbeth
Three and
an extra
Thrown away
Miss Youghal's sais
'Yoked with an unbeliever'
False dawn
The rescue of Pluffles
Cupid's arrows
The three musketeers
His chance in life
Watches of the night
The other man
Consequences
The conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
The taking of Lungtungpen
A germ destroyer
Kidnapped
The arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
In the house of Suddhoo
His wedded wife
The broken-link handicap
Beyond the pale
In error
A bank fraud
Tods' amendment
The daughter of the regiment
In the pride of his youth
Pig
The rout of the white hussars
The Bronckhorst divorce case
Venus annodomini
The Bisara of Pooree
A friend's friend
The gate of the hundred sorrows
The madness of Private Ortheris
The story of Muhammed Din
On the strength of a likeness
Wressley on the Foreign Office
By word of mouth
To be filed for reference.

Edition Notes

LC copy has publisher's advertisements: "Catalogue of books published by Macmillan and Co. ... February, 1890": 59 p. at end.

Stewart, J.M. Kipling, 20

Livingston, F.V.M. Kipling, 26

LC copy part of the gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt, 1984-1987. Has bookplate of H. Dunscombe Colt.

Published in
London, New York
Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR4854 .P6 1890b

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 310 p. ;
Number of pages
310

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23141525M
LCCN
2007580813
OCLC/WorldCat
626334

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL20170W

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First Sentence

"SHE was the daughter of Sonoo, a Hill-man of the Himalayas, and Jadeh his wife."

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