Author Name:
Kipling, Rudyard [Joseph]
Title:
Plain Tales From the Hills; Volume Three
Binding:
Hard Cover
Book Condition:
Fine
Jacket Condition:
No Jacket
Edition:
Authorized American Trade Edition
Size:
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Publisher:
Garden City New York
Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
1929
Seller ID:
001947
VOLUME 3 of 9 AUTHORIZED AMERICAN TRADE EDITION OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S WORKS "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 20.) 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)." Wikipedia Fine black cloth. Gilt titles. Rear cover side edge wear. 1929. 8vo. xx, [2], 3-320pp.
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