Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

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9780140183122: Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140183124 ISBN 13: 9780140183122

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1990

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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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Exciting and illuminating sketches from British India.

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