Plain Tales from the Hills

Author:   Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:   Blurb
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9780368613029


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   15 April 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Plain Tales from the Hills


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Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) 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 1886 and June 1887. The remaining tales are, more or less, new. (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the CMG-his first job-since 1882, when he was not quite 17.) The title refers, by way of a pun on Plain as the reverse of Hills , to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla-the summer capital of the British Raj during the hot weather. Not all of the stories are, in fact, about life in the Hills : Kipling gives sketches of many aspects of life in British India. The tales include the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hauksbee, the policeman Strickland, and the Soldiers Three (Privates Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd)

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Author:   Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:   Blurb
Imprint:   Blurb
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780368613029


ISBN 10:   036861302
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   15 April 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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