Plain Tales from the Hills
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About This Book
This carefully crafted ebook: “Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection - 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short stories, the tales about India and more noticeably about the British in India. 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 ...
Chapters (36)
- PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS
- PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS
- LISPETH.
- THREE AND—AN EXTRA.
- THROWN AWAY.
- MISS YOUGHAL'S SAIS.
- YOKED WITH AN UNBELIEVER.
- FALSE DAWN.
- THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES.
- CUPID'S ARROWS.
- HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.
- WATCHES OF THE NIGHT.
- THE OTHER MAN.
- CONSEQUENCES.
- THE CONVERSION OF AURELIAN McGOGGIN.
- A GERM DESTROYER.
- KIDNAPPED.
- THE ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GOLIGHTLY.
- THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO
- HIS WEDDED WIFE.
- THE BROKEN LINK HANDICAPPED.
- BEYOND THE PALE.
- IN ERROR.
- A BANK FRAUD.
- TOD'S AMENDMENT.
- IN THE PRIDE OF HIS YOUTH.
- PIG.
- THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS.
- THE BRONCKHORST DIVORCE-CASE.
- VENUS ANNODOMINI.
- THE BISARA OF POOREE.
- THE GATE OF A HUNDRED SORROWS.
- THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN.
- ON THE STRENGTH OF A LIKENESS.
- WRESSLEY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE.
- TO BE HELD FOR REFERENCE.
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