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The phantom 'rickshaw, City of dreadful night, and other tales

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An edition of Plain tales from the hills (1850)

The phantom 'rickshaw, City of dreadful night, and other tales

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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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The Lovell Company
Language
English
Pages
148

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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

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

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India

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British occupation, 1765-1947, 19th century

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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, Edinburgh Society
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1909, Nottingham society
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Plain tales from the hills
1900, A. L. Burt
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Plain tales from the hills
1900, Registered Editions Guild
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The phantom 'rickshaw, City of dreadful night, and other tales
1899, The Lovell Company
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Plain tales from the hills
1899, Doubleday & McClure
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Table of Contents

The phantom 'rickshaw
My own true ghost story
The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The man who would be king
City of the dreadful night.

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Classifications

Library of Congress
PR4854 .P45 1890

The Physical Object

Pagination
148, 76 p., [1] leaf of plates :
Number of pages
148

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23705031M
Internet Archive
phantomrickshawc00kipl
LCCN
09003021

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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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