Plain Tales from the Hills

Name: Plain Tales from the Hills
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ISBN: 9780141442396

ISBN-10: 0141442395

ISBN-13: 9780141442396

Edition: 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Rudyard Kipling, Kaori Nagai, Jan Montefiore, Kaori Nagai

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Fascinating, funny, tragic, immensely readable and witty, these stories provide an invaluable insight into life in India during the British Raj.

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/26/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Jan Montefiore is Professor of 20th Century English Literature at the University of Kent. Her most recent book is Rudyard Kipling (2007).



Chronology


General Preface


Introduction


Note on the Text


Further Reading


Plain Tales From The Hills


Lispeth


Three and - an Extra


Thrown Away


Miss Youghal's Sais


Bitters Neat


'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


Haunted Subalterns


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


Appendix: Two Original Versions of 'Plain Tales'


Notes