Plain Tales from the Hills
by Kipling, Rudyard; Rutherford, AndrewEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-03-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, sometimes pathetic, the Plain Tales with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story as an art-form.
Table of Contents
| General Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. xii |
| Note on the Text | p. xxiii |
| Select Bibliography | p. xxx |
| A Chronology of Kipling's Life and Works | p. xxxiii |
| Plain Tales From The Hills | |
| Dedication | p. 3 |
| Preface | p. 5 |
| Lispeth | p. 7 |
| Three and-an Extra | p. 12 |
| Thrown Away | p. 16 |
| Miss Youghal's Sais | p. 24 |
| 'Yoked with an Unbeliever' | p. 30 |
| False Dawn | p. 35 |
| The Rescue of Pluffles | p. 43 |
| Cupid's Arrows | p. 48 |
| The Three Musketeers | p. 53 |
| His Chance in Life | p. 59 |
| Watches of the Night | p. 65 |
| The Other Man | p. 71 |
| Consequences | p. 75 |
| The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin | p. 81 |
| The Taking of Lungtungpen | p. 86 |
| A Germ-Destroyer | p. 92 |
| Kidnapped | p. 97 |
| The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly | p. 102 |
| In the House of Suddhoo | p. 108 |
| His Wedded Wife | p. 116 |
| The Broken-Link Handicap | p. 122 |
| Beyond the Pale | p. 127 |
| In Error | p. 133 |
| A Bank Fraud | p. 137 |
| Tod's Amendment | p. 144 |
| The Daughter of the Regiment | p. 150 |
| In the Pride of his Youth | p. 156 |
| Pig | p. 162 |
| The Rout of the White Hussars | p. 169 |
| The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case | p. 179 |
| Venus Annodomini | p. 185 |
| The Bisara of Pooree | p. 190 |
| A Friend's Friend | p. 195 |
| The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows | p. 201 |
| The Madness of Private Ortheris | p. 207 |
| The Story of Muhammad Din | p. 215 |
| On the Strength of a Likeness | p. 218 |
| Wressley of the Foreign Office | p. 224 |
| By Word of Mouth | p. 229 |
| To be Filed for Reference | p. 234 |
| Bitters Neat | p. 243 |
| Haunted Subalterns | p. 247 |
| Explanatory Notes | p. 252 |
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