Plain tales from the hills
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Plain tales from the hills
（Penguin classics, . Penguin literature）
Penguin, 2011
- : pbk
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Chronology: p. [vii]-xii
Bibliography: p. [xli]-xliv
Contents of Works
- Lispeth
- Three and - an extra
- Thrown away
- Miss Youghal's sais
- Bitters neat
- 'Yoked with an unbeliever'
- False dawn
- The rescue of Pluffles
- Cupid's arrows
- The three musketeers
- His chance in life
- Watches of the night
- The other man
- Haunted subalterns
- Consequences
- The conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
- The taking of lungtungpen
- A germ-destroyer
- Kidnapped
- The arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
- In the House of Suddhoo
- His wedded wife
- The broken-link handicap
- Beyond the pale
- In error
- A bank fraud
- Tods' amendment
- The daughter of the regiment
- In the pride of his youth
- Pig
- The rout of the White Hussars
- The Bronckhorst divorce-case
- Venus Annodomini
- The Bisara of Pooree
- A friend's friend
- The gate of the hundred sorrows
- The madness of Private Ortheris
- The story of Muhammad Din
- On the strength of a likeness
- Wressley of the foreign office
- By word of month
- To be filed for reference
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Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination. Including the stories 'Lispeth', 'Beyond the Pale' and 'In the Pride of His Youth', they tell of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances and divided identities, creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society. Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore when Kipling was a journalist, the tales were later revised by him to re-create as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for readers at home. Far from being a celebration of empire, these stories explore the barriers between races, classes and sexes, and convey all the tensions and contradictions of colonial life.
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