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Plain Tales From The Hills by Rudyard Kipling Antique 1899 Hardcover Pocket Book
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Plain Tales from the Hills
by Rudyard Kipling
1888 Antique Turn Of The Century Hardcover Pocket Book
First Edition, published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills is a collection of short stories set in the fictional hill station of Simla. The stories are about Indian men and women who live in the station and their interactions with Europeans. 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.
Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. The stories it includes were written before he reached the age of 22, and they show a remarkably precocious literary talent.
Rudyard Kipling (Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936) was born December 30, 1865 in Bombay, English author and poet, best known for The Jungle Book. Kipling split his boyhood between the markets of Bombay India and an abusive English foster home. His life of travel and tragedy led to two near nervous breakdowns, but made his creative work accessible to both the aristocracy and the common man. He died on January 18, 1936 as one of the most famous and highly paid writers of his time.
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- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Topic
- Fiction
- Subject
- Literature & Fiction
- Publisher
- The Lovell Company
- Year Printed
- 1899
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Original/Facsimile
- Original
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