Books with title Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling was a prolific English writer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest authors in all of literature. Kipling wrote classics in many genres including the Jungle Books, Just So Stories, Kim, and The Man Who Would Be King. Plain Tales from the Hills, published in 1888, is a collection of 40 short stories. The collection is notable as it is Kipling's first and it is considered to be one of his greatest works.

Rudyard Kipling is one of the best known writers of the 20th century, and an author whose works are ready by kids around the globe. In his day, he was known for his tales and poems, many of which were set in India during the era of the British Empire, but now he is best known for works like The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and Kim. Among the works Kipling produced about India, Plain Tales from the Hills is arguably the most popular. Plain Tales was Kipling’s first collection of stories, and it looks at what life was like in India when the British still ruled it. It also serves as a prequel of sorts to Kim, one of Kipling's most famous novels.

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist best known for tales of British soldiers in India, and his children's stories, including Gunga Din, The Man Who Would Be King, Kim, Just So Stories, and The Jungle Book. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Plain Tails from the Hills is the first collection of Kipling's short stories, many of which are set in the Hill Station of Simla -- the summer capital of the British Raj during the hot weather.

*This book is Annotated (It contains a biography of the Author).* CONTENTS: Lispeth -- Three and--an extra -- Thrown away -- Miss Youghal's sais -- Yoked with an unbeliever -- False dawn -- The rescue of Pluffles -- Cupid's arrows -- His chance in life -- Watches of the night -- The other man -- Consequences -- The conversionof Aurelian McGoggin -- A germ destroyer -- Kidnapped -- The arrest of Liutenanat Golightly -- The house of Suddhoo -- His wedded wife -- The broken link handicapped -- Beyond the pale -- In error -- A bank fraud -- Tod's amendment -- In the pride of his youth -- Pig -- The rout of the White Hussars -- The Bronckhorst divorce-case -- Venus Annodomini -- The Bisara of poorer -- The gate of a hundred sorrows -- The story of Muhammid Din -- On the strength of a likeness -- Wressley of the Foreign Office -- By word of mouth -- To be held for reference.

"First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. His vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, these tales withtheir brevity and concentration of effect are landmarks in the history of the short story as an art-form. "from GoodReads

Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the CMG—his first job—since 1882, when he was not quite 17.)The title refers, by way of a pun on "Plain" as the reverse of "Hills", to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla—the "summer capital of the British Raj" during the hot weather. Not all of the stories are, in fact, about life in "the Hills": Kipling gives sketches of many aspects of life in British India.The tales include the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hauksbee, the policeman Strickland, and the Soldiers Three (Privates Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd).In the preface to his short stories collection "Dr. Brodie's Report", Jorge Luis Borges wrote he was inspired by the quality and conciseness of Plain Tales from the Hills.The stories"Lispeth""Three and – an Extra""Thrown Away""Miss Youghal's Sais""'Yoked with an Unbeliever'""False Dawn""The Rescue of Pluffles""Cupid's Arrows""The Three Musketeers""His Chance in Life""Watches of the Night""The Other Man""Consequences""The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin""The Taking of Lungtungpen""A Germ-Destroyer""Kidnapped""The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly""In the House of Suddhoo""His Wedded Wife""The Broken-Link Handicap""Beyond the Pale""In Error""A Bank Fraud""Tods' Amendment""The Daughter of the Regiment""In the Pride of his Youth""Pig""The Rout of the White Hussars""The Bronckhorst Divorce-case""Venus Annodomini""The Bisara of Pooree""A Friend's Friend""The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows""The Madness of Private Ortheris""The Story of Muhammad Din""On the Strength of a Likeness""Wressley of the Foreign Office""By Word of Mouth""To be Filed for Reference"

Set and published during the time the British Raj, a time of subalterns and tea planters, tiffin and bands playing 'The Roast Beef of England', the forty stories in Plain Tales From The Hills are played out under an unforgiving sun, revealing the deceit, faithlessness, shallowness, despair, mistrust, hate and petty jealousies rife amongst the British inhabitants of India. Fascinating, funny, tragic, immensely readable and witty, these stories provide an invaluable insight into life in India during the British Raj, introducing us to the work of one of the most beloved writers of the twentieth century.

Set and published during the time the British Raj, a time of subalterns and tea planters, tiffin and bands playing 'The Roast Beef of England', the forty stories in Plain Tales From The Hills are played out under an unforgiving sun, revealing the deceit, faithlessness, shallowness, despair, mistrust, hate and petty jealousies rife amongst the British inhabitants of India. Fascinating, funny, tragic, immensely readable and witty, these stories provide an invaluable insight into life in India during the British Raj, introducing us to the work of one of the most beloved writers of the twentieth century.