Length7h 41m
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Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the CMG—his first job—since 1882, when he was not quite 17.) The title refers, by way of a pun on "Plain" as the reverse of "Hills", to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla—the "summer capital of the British Raj" during the hot weather. Not all of the stories are, in fact, about life in "the Hills": Kipling gives sketches of many aspects of life in British India.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length7 hrs 41 mins
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Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1LISPETH.
18HIS WEDDED WIFE.
2THREE AND—AN EXTRA.
19THE BROKEN LINK HANDICAPPED.
3THROWN AWAY.
20BEYOND THE PALE.
4MISS YOUGHAL'S SAIS.
21IN ERROR.
5YOKED WITH AN UNBELIEVER.
22A BANK FRAUD.
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6FALSE DAWN.
23TOD'S AMENDMENT.
7THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES.
24IN THE PRIDE OF HIS YOUTH.
8CUPID'S ARROWS.
25PIG.
9HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.
26THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS.
10WATCHES OF THE NIGHT.
27THE BRONCKHORST DIVORCE-CASE.
11THE OTHER MAN.
28VENUS ANNODOMINI.
12CONSEQUENCES.
29THE BISARA OF POOREE.
13THE CONVERSION OF AURELIAN McGOGGIN.
30THE GATE OF A HUNDRED SORROWS.
14A GERM DESTROYER.
31THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN.
15KIDNAPPED.
32ON THE STRENGTH OF A LIKENESS.
16THE ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GOLIGHTLY.
33WRESSLEY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE.
17THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO
34TO BE HELD FOR REFERENCE.
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