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An edition of Plain tales from the hills (1850)

Short stories

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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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Fiction, History, British, Correspondence, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Social life and customs, Soldiers, British Occupation of India (1765-1947) fast (OCoLC)fst01352145, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947, fiction, India, fiction, Indian soldiers, English fiction, Histoire, Romans, nouvelles, Britanniques

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Lowell Thomas (1892-)

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India

Times

British occupation, 1765-1947, 19th century

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Cover of: Plain Tales from the Hills
Plain Tales from the Hills
December 31, 2005, Dodo Press
Paperback in English
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Cover of: Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics)
Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics)
December 30, 1991, Penguin Classics
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Short stories
1971, Penguin
in English
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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.
Cover of: Plain tales from the hills
Plain tales from the hills
1910, Rand, McNally
in English
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Cover of: Plain tales from the hills.
Plain tales from the hills.
1909, Edinburgh Society
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Plain tales from the hills.
1909, Nottingham society
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Cover of: Plain tales from the hills
Plain tales from the hills
1900, A. L. Burt
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Plain tales from the hills
1900, Registered Editions Guild
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Plain tales from the hills
1899, Doubleday & McClure
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Table of Contents

v. 1. A Sahibs' war and other stories.
v. 2. Friendly brook and other stories.

Edition Notes

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Harmondsworth
Series
Penguin modern classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PZ3.K629 Sh, PR4852 Sh

The Physical Object

Pagination
2 v.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5328302M
Internet Archive
shortstories0002kipl
ISBN 10
0140032819, 0140032827
LCCN
72181273
Library Thing
2577749
Goodreads
2880538
2958226

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First Sentence

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

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