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The City of Dreadful Night

By Rudyard Kipling
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Profoundly suspicious of Calcutta's openness to new ideas and values, Kipling turns his attentions to liberalism and policies of native self-government, ridiculing the contribution of the Bengal Legislative Council to the running of the city. The 'ferocious stench' of refuse, bad water, and sewage is taken by Kipling as a metaphor of the corruption of the Council and the city.
CrimePolitical IntrigueMemoryIdentityNoirSatireGrief

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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length1 hr 58 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1CONTENTS.
2CHAPTER I. A REAL LIVE CITY.
3CHAPTER II. THE REFLECTIONS OF A SAVAGE.
4CHAPTER III. THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS.
5CHAPTER IV. ON THE BANKS OF THE HUGLI.
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6CHAPTER V. WITH THE CALCUTTA POLICE.
7CHAPTER VI. THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT.
8CHAPTER VII. DEEPER AND DEEPER STILL.
9CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING LUCIA.

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