An edition of Plain tales from the hills (1850)

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An edition of Plain tales from the hills (1850)

Plain tales from the hills

Rev. 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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Language
English
Pages
324

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

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New York

Edition Notes

At head of title: The works of Rudyard Kipling.
"Eight-and-twenty of these tales appeared originally in the Civil and military gazette". --Pref.

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.K629 Pl3, PR4854.P6 Pl3

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 324 p.
Number of pages
324

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL529149M
Internet Archive
plaintalesfromhi0000kipl_n9c3
LCCN
99003031
OCLC/WorldCat
236926
Library Thing
15552

First Sentence

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

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