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Plain tales from the hills
by Rudyard Kipling
First Published
1800
Subjects
Fiction
History
British
Correspondence
Classic Literature
Short Stories
Social life and customs
Soldiers
British Occupation of India (1765-1947) fast (OCoLC)fst01352145
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, short stories (single author)
India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947, fiction
India, fiction
Indian soldiers
English fiction
Histoire
Romans, nouvelles
Britanniques
English literature
English Short stories
Description
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.