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An edition of Plain tales from the hills (1850)

Plain tales from the hills

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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.

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Publisher
W F Howes Ltd
Language
English
Pages
386

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Plain tales from the hills
2014, W F Howes Ltd
in English
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Plain Tales from the Hills
December 31, 2005, Dodo Press
Paperback in English
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Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics)
December 30, 1991, Penguin Classics
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Plain tales from the hills
1920, Doubleday, Page
in English
Cover of: Plain tales from the hills
Plain tales from the hills
1919, Doubleday, Page & Co.
in English - Rev. ed.
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Plain tales from the hills
1910, Rand, McNally
in English
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Plain tales from the hills.
1909, Nottingham society
in English
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Plain tales from the hills.
1909, Edinburgh Society
- Edinburgh de Luxe ed.
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Plain tales from the hills
1900, A. L. Burt
in English
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Plain tales from the hills
1900, Registered Editions Guild
in English - Art-type ed.
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Plain tales from the hills
1899, Doubleday & McClure
in English - Rev. ed.

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Table of Contents

Lispeth
Three and
an extra
Thrown away
Miss Youghal's Sais
Bitters neat
'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
Haunted subalterns
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 Muhammad Din
On the strength of a likeness
Wressly of the Foreign Office
By word of mouth
To be filed for reference.

Edition Notes

Published by W.F. Howes Ltd under the Clipper imprint.

Published in
Rearsby, Leicester
Series
Clipper

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.8

The Physical Object

Pagination
386 pages (large print)
Number of pages
386

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32133689M
Internet Archive
plaintalesfromhi0000kipl_s0w8
ISBN 10
1471261220
ISBN 13
9781471261220
OCLC/WorldCat
880832360

First Sentence

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

Work Description

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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