An edition of Plain tales from the hills (1850)

Plain tales from the hills

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An edition of Plain tales from the hills (1850)

Plain tales from the hills

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Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of 'heat and bewilderment and wasted effort and broken faith'. He writes brilliantly and hauntingly about the barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience but implacably crushed.

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
294

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Plain Tales from the Hills
December 31, 2005, Dodo Press
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Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics)
December 30, 1991, Penguin Classics
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Plain tales from the hills
1987, Penguin Books
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Plain tales from the hills
1920, Doubleday, Page
in English
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Plain tales from the hills
1919, Doubleday, Page & Co.
in English - Rev. ed.
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Plain tales from the hills
1910, Rand, McNally
in English
Cover of: Plain tales from the hills.
Plain tales from the hills.
1909, Nottingham society
in English
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Plain tales from the hills.
1909, Edinburgh Society
- Edinburgh de Luxe ed.
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Plain tales from the hills
1900, A. L. Burt
in English
Cover of: Plain tales from the hills
Plain tales from the hills
1900, Registered Editions Guild
in English - Art-type ed.
Cover of: Plain tales from the hills
Plain tales from the hills
1899, Doubleday & McClure
in English - Rev. ed.

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Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1890.

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Series
Penguin classics

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR4854 .P5 1987, PR4854 .P6 1987b

The Physical Object

Pagination
294 p. ;
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26568736M
ISBN 10
0140432876
OCLC/WorldCat
489959570

First Sentence

"SHE was the daughter of Sonoo, a Hill-man of the Himalayas, and Jadeh his wife."

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