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Length1h 29m
About this audiobook
Rudyard Kipling's "The Eyes of Asia" takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for King and the British Empire in the First World War.
First published in 1918, "The Eyes of Asia" contains four letters purporting to be written to relations or friends at home in India by soldiers of the Indian Army (part of the normal British Forces in that country down to 1947) at the time of World War I, 1914-18. They were on active service in Europe and Africa, 1915-18.
The articles forming "The Eyes of Asia" appeared in the American Saturday Evening Post in six parts over the month of May and the beginning of June 1917 and were published in book form in 1918.
"The Eyes of Asia" consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier, which take place in 1915 and 1916. “A Retired Gentleman” and “The Fumes of the Heart” are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers, a Rajput and a Sikh, to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories, “The Private Account” is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front, and the final story, “A Trooper of Horse”, takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.3 (80)
Includes Goodreads
GenreHistory, Biography and Memoir, Children's Literature
Length1 hr 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 28, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Retired Gentleman
2The Fumes of the Heart
3The Private Account
4A Trooper of Horse
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