Life's handicap

being stories of Mine own people

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Life's handicap
Rudyard Kipling
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Life's handicap

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Life's Handicap contains twenty-seven stories about the experience of the British in India. Contents: The Lang Men O' Larut, Reingelder and the German Flag, The Wandering Jew, Through the Fire, The Finances Of the Gods, The Amir's Homily, Jews In Shushan, The Limitations of Pambe Serang, Little Tobrah, Bubbling Well Road, 'The City of Dreadful Night', Georgie Porgie, Naboth, The Dream of Duncan Parrenness, The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, On Greenhow Hill, The Man Who Was, The Head of the District, Without Benefit of Clergy, At the End of the Passage, The Mutiny of the Mavericks, The Mark of the Beast, The Return of Imray, Namgay Doola, Bertran And Bimi, Moti Guj--Mutineer, L'envoi.

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Publisher
Macmillan and Co.
Language
English
Pages
351

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Life's handicap
1987, Oxford University Press
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Life's handicap: being stories of mine own people
1914, Published by Doubleday, Page for Review of Reviews
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Life's handicap: being stories of mine own people
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1899, Doubleday & McClure co.
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Table of Contents

The Lang men o' Larut
Reingelder and the German flag
The wandering Jew
Through the fire
The finances of the gods
The amir's homily
Jews in Shushan
The limitations of Pambé Serang
Little Tobrah
Bubbling Well Road
The city of dreadful night
Georgie Porgie
Naboth
The dream of Duncan Parrenness
The incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
The courting of Dinah Shadd
On Greenhow Hill
The man who was
The head of the district
Without benefit of clergy
At the end of the passage
The mutiny of the mavericks
The mark of the beast
The return of Imray
Namgay Doola
Bertran and Bimi
Moti Guj - mutineer.

Edition Notes

"Robert Drummond, electrotyper and printer, New York"--T.p. verso.

"First (American) edition"--Cf. J.M. Stewart, Rudyard Kipling, a bibliographical catalogue, p. 102.

Includes the poem: "L'envoi" on verso of p. 351.

LC copy in red cloth binding with gold tooling.

Stewart, J.M. Kipling, 99

Livingston, F.V.M. Kipling, 79

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London, New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR4854 .L48 1891b

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 351 p.
Number of pages
351

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31758355M
LCCN
2006590672
OCLC/WorldCat
76795281

First Sentence

"THE Chief Engineer's sleeping suit was of yellow striped with blue, and his speech was the speech of Aberdeen."

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