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Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection - 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India)

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Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection - 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India)

Simla Stories of the British RajBy Rudyard Kipling

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection - 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short stories, the tales about India and more noticeably about the British in India. 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. The tales include the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hauksbee, the policeman Strickland, and the Soldiers Three (Privates Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd). Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Contents: Lispeth 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 Muhammad Din On the Strength of a Likeness Wressley of the Foreign Office ...

Identity Historical Romance Satire Psychological Family Forbidden Love Romantic Comedy

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GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction

Length9 hrs 21 mins

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Publish dateAug 27, 2015

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Lispeth

22A Bank Fraud

2Three And—an Extra

23Tods&#x27; Amendment

3Thrown Away

24In the Pride of His Youth

4Miss Youghal&#x27;s Sais

25Pig

5Yoked With an Unbeliever

26The Rout of the White Hussars

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6False Dawn

27The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case

7The Rescue of Pluffles

28Venus Annodomini

8Cupid&#x27;s Arrows

29The Bisara of Pooree

9His Chance in Life

30The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows

10Watches of the Night

31The Story of Muhammad Din

11The Other Man

32On the Strength of a Likeness

12Consequences

33Wressley of the Foreign Office

13The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin

34By Word of Mouth

14A Germ Destroyer

35To Be Held for Reference

15Kidnapped

36The Three Musketeers

16The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly

37The Taking of Lungtungpen

17The House of Suddhoo

38The Daughter of the Regiment

18His Wedded Wife

39A Friend’s Friend

19The Broken Link Handicapped

40The Madness of Private Ortheris

20Beyond the Pale

41Haunted Subalterns

21In Error

42Bitters Neat

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