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Plain Tales from the Hills

Name: Plain Tales from the Hills
Author: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN: 9781411459243

by Rudyard Kipling

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Overview

The forty-two stories in this, Kipling’s first collection of tales, originally published in 1888, were written and set in India. Characters from his novel Kim appear in several of them. This 1916 edition includes “Lispeth,” “Three and—an Extra,” “Thrown Away,” “Yoked with an Unbeliever,” “False Dawn,” “The Rescue of Pluffles,” “Cupid’s Arrows,” and many more.

About the Author, Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a pastmaster of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”