Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics)

Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 30 Aug 1990

ISBN 10: 0140183124
ISBN 13: 9780140183122
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907

Author Bio
Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), English short-story writer, novelist and poet. Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). His most popular works include The Jungle Book (1894) and the Just So Stories (1902), both children's classics though they have attracted adult audiences also.