Selected Stories

by Andrew Rutherford (Introduction), Andrew Rutherford (Introduction), Rudyard Kipling (Author)

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2001
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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 28 Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 0141186755
ISBN 13: 9780141186757

Author Bio

Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 but spent most of his childhood in England. He returned to India in 1881 as a journalist and also wrote stories, sketches and poems. His literary reputation was established with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). Today he is best remembered for The Jungle Book and Kim. He was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907