Plain Tales from the Hills - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480101788 ISBN 13: 9781480101784

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, 28 were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.

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Review

"A prophet of British imperialism." --George Orwell

"Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." --Henry James

"These stories are the best account of the nature of the Victorian Raj ever written." --Griff Rhys Jones, actor and editor, "The Nation's Favourite Twentieth Century Poems"

"As the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with." --Douglas Kerr, author, "George Orwell"

Book Description

Exciting and illuminating sketches from British India.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1480101788
• ISBN 13: 9781480101784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254