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The Day's Work - Volume 1

Rudyard Kipling

Book Overview: 

In The Day's Work, Kipling uses a series of short stories to examine labor and employment in a variety of different industries, be it shipping, transport or bridge building.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .t give an' tak' accordin' to her personal modulus of elasteecity." Mr. Buchanan, the chief engineer, was coming towards them. "I'm sayin' to Miss Frazier, here, that our little Dimbula has to be sweetened yet, and nothin' but a gale will do it. How's all wi' your engines, Buck?"

"Well enough—true by plumb an' rule, o' course; but there's no spontaneeity yet." He turned to the girl. "Take my word, Miss Frazier, and maybe ye'll comprehend later; even after a pretty girl's christened a ship it does not follow that there's such a thing as a ship under the men that work her."

"I was sayin' the very same, Mr. Buchanan," the skipper interrupted.

"That's more metaphysical than I can follow," said Miss Frazier, laughing.

"Why so? Ye're good Scotch, an'—I knew your mother's father, he was fra' Dumfries—ye've a vested right in metapheesics, Miss Frazier, just as ye have in the Dimbula," the engineer said.

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Community Reviews

Originally published on my blog here in November 2000.

Short stories of variable quality make up The Day's Work; it contains some of Kipling's best writing alongside some of his worst. The stories have no feature common to them all; most are set away from India, most have non-human characters - anima

As with many of Kipling's short storage it was hit or miss with me..

What a delightful collection; I sincerely enjoyed my first taste of Kipling’s short stories, and hope to read more. My one complaint is that they often start quite slowly and confusingly—I found it common practice that I would need to push through the first few pages of many stories before I started

Having made Kipling my speciality author of the year, over all, predominantly not what I expected. The majority of his works are mediocre, sub par, others are politically sensitive. Then, you get works like ‘The Man who would be king’, ‘Kim’, and to a certain extent ‘The Jungle Book’. Once in a blue

Maybe 4 stars?

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But it is Kipling. Even though I did not care for a couple of the stories, others were quite good. Some of them are often considered to be among his finest.

Maybe 4 stars?

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But it is Kipling. Even though I did not care for a couple of the stories, others were quite good. Some of them are often considered to be among his finest.

Kipling comes with a certain amount of challenging baggage, in particular the frequent appearance of the white man’s burden which is certainly inescapable as a theme in this collection (as is a tinge of anti-Semitism in two of the stories). As has been argued many times before this should be seen in

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