Ebook {Epub PDF} Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling

14 rows ·  · Bibliographic Record. Author. Kipling, Rudyard, Title. Plain Tales from the Author: Kipling, Rudyard, Plain Tales from the Hills (Oxford World's Classics) Kipling, Rudyard. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN ISBN Seller: Literary Cat Books, Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, United Kingdom. Contact seller. Rudyard Kipling was 32 when his first collection of short stories, PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS, was published in He had first issued 28 of them in the pages of his Anglo-Indian employer, The Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore, India ().

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online. Rudyard Kipling. Set and published during the time of the British Raj, a time of subalterns and tea planters, the 40 stories in Plain Tales From The Hills are played out under an unforgiving sun, revealing the deceit, faithlessness, shallowness, despair, mistrust, hate. To be held for reference * * *. Plain Tales from the Hills. by. Rudyard Kipling. To. the Wittiest Woman in India. I Dedicate This Book. PREFACE. Eight-and-twenty of these tales appeared originally in the Civil and Military Gazette.

Here his writing career blossomed - along with poems and novels, numerous short stories flowed from his pen, the best of which were published as 'Plain Tales From The Hills' in Kipling skillfully compresses the whole of India into a single volume: the fabulous customs, the grandiose scenery, India's kaleidoscopic ethnic mix of tribe, caste and rank, and over it all, the British Raj. Plain Tales from the Hills (published ) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India between November and June "The remaining tales are, more or less, new.". My understanding is that in India there are the Plains and there are the Hills (a euphemistic term for the Himalayas) so there is something of a pun carried in the title 'Plain Tales from the Hills'. You could not wish to find forty more varied and penetrating stories about Anglo/Indian society under the Raj than those which make up this book.