The Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Tales in One Edition
440+ Colonial India Stories, Ghost Tales, Animal Fables, and Imperial AdventuresBy Rudyard Kipling
Length179h 13m
About this audiobook
The Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Tales in One Edition presents an expansive survey of Kipling's fictional art, gathering stories shaped by empire, military life, childhood, labor, animals, and the moral ambiguities of modernity. Moving between the Indian subcontinent, Britain, and imagined or legendary worlds, these tales display his remarkable range: brisk journalistic sketches, intricate adventure narratives, fables, ghost stories, historical romances, and psychologically acute studies of duty and belonging. Kipling's muscular prose, vivid vernacular dialogue, rhythmic narration, and mastery of atmosphere place the collection within the major traditions of Victorian and early modern short fiction, while also exposing the colonial assumptions that demand critical attention today. Born in Bombay in 1865 and formed by experiences in India, England, and the British imperial press, Joseph Rudyard Kipling transformed journalism and firsthand observation into literature of unusual immediacy. His work reflects the tensions of his life and age: fascination with cultural encounter, confidence in imperial institutions, sympathy for outsiders, and an enduring concern with discipline, loyalty, and loss. These competing impulses help explain both the energy and the controversy of his stories. Recommended for readers of literary history, empire studies, world literature, and finely crafted narrative, this substantial edition offers an indispensable opportunity to encounter Kipling's achievement in its breadth. Read selectively or sequentially, it rewards close attention to language while inviting informed debate about power, culture, and representation.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length179 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections (Annotated)
2The Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Tales in One Edition
3The City of Dreadful Night
4Chapter 1. A Real Live City
5Chapter 2. The Reflections of a Savage
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6Chapter 3. The Council of the Gods
7Chapter 4. On the Banks of the Hughli
8Chapter 5. With the Calcutta Police
9Chapter 6. The City of Dreadful Night
10Chapter 7. Deeper and Deeper Still
11Chapter 8. Concerning Lucia
12Plain Tales From the Hills
13Lispeth
14Three And—an Extra
15Thrown Away
16Miss Youghal's Sais
17Yoked With an Unbeliever
18False Dawn
19The Rescue of Pluffles
20Cupid's Arrows
21His Chance in Life
22Watches of the Night
23The Other Man
24Consequences
25The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
26A Germ Destroyer
27Kidnapped
28The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
29The House of Suddhoo
30His Wedded Wife
31The Broken Link Handicapped
32Beyond the Pale
33In Error
34A Bank Fraud
35Tods' Amendment
36In the Pride of His Youth
37Pig
38The Rout of the White Hussars
39The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case
40Venus Annodomini
41The Bisara of Pooree
42The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows
43The Story of Muhammad Din
44On the Strength of a Likeness
45Wressley of the Foreign Office
46By Word of Mouth
47To Be Held for Reference
48The Three Musketeers
49The Taking of Lungtungpen
50The Daughter of the Regiment
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