by Andrew Rutherford (Author), Andrew Rutherford (Author), Rudyard Kipling (Author)
Rudyard Kipling is undoubtedly among the great short story writers in the English language. This collection opens with The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows , the first story Kipling published as a young journalist in India, and ends with an acknowledged masterpiece, The Gardener , written 50 years later in the aftermath of the Great War. The stories of the intervening years show an extraordinary range of subject matter and technique, from his exploration of the tragic loves of Englishmen and Indian women in Lispeth and Without Benefit of Clergy to political fables, like The Mother Hive , and psychological case histories, such as Mary Postgate . Above all, these stories reveal Kipling's ability to enter imaginatively into the minds of characters whose lives and values were radically different from his own -- his willingness, as he himself once said, to think in another man's skin .
Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Edition: New
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 30 Aug 1990
ISBN 10: 0140183132
ISBN 13: 9780140183139
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907