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An edition of Plain tales from the hills (1850)

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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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A. L. Burt
Language
English
Pages
317

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Subjects

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

People

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
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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
1920, Doubleday, Page
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Plain tales from the hills
1919, Doubleday, Page & Co.
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Plain tales from the hills
1910, Rand, McNally
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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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New York
Series
The Home library
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.K629 Pl8, PR4854.P6 Pl8

The Physical Object

Pagination
iv, 317 p., [1] leaf of plates :
Number of pages
317

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6613576M
Internet Archive
plaintalesfromhi00kipl_4
LCCN
19000724
OCLC/WorldCat
8314030
Library Thing
15552

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

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