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The Eyes of Asia

Rudyard Kipling

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. . .e women understand perfectly what is needful in the day of trial. They say to their men: "Add to the renown of your race. We will attend to the rest through the excellent education which this just Government has caused us to receive." Thus the men's hearts are lightened when they go to the war. They confide securely in their well educated women. How is it with our horses? Shape and size from the sire: temper and virtue from the dam. If the mare endures thirst, the colt can run without water. Man's nature also draws from the spindle-side. Why have we allowed forgetfulness to impair our memory? This was well known in the old days. In this country arrangements for washing clothes exist in almost every house, such as tubs, boards, and irons, and there is a machine to squeeze water out of the washed clothes. They do not conceal their astonishment at our methods. Our women should be taught. Only by knowledge is anything achieved. Otherwise we are as children running about naked under. . . Read More

Community Reviews

The version I read had an introduction from Charles Allen which was sort of a biography of Rudyard Kipling himself and that introduction I found much more interesting than the letters themselves.

I happen to be indian myself (well Pakistani by nationalty but that is of little importance here) and hen

Short stories written in the form of letters home from four soldiers serving during the first world war. Kipling, through his knowledge of Indian culture, contrasts the experience of “normal” Indians with the alien environment of a foreign war.

Perhaps only for big Kipling fans. It's not that this brief book is without fascination. Though Kipling and the British Army weren't hiding the fact there was a propaganda value to "The Eyes of Asia," Kipling did base it on actual letters he had been given. In other words, he's not just making it up

a family is a family even [if it be] scattered to the ends of the earth

The first works that I have read of Kipling. This is a short collection of 4 letters written by the author through the eyes of Indian soldiers during WW1. The letters explain the western culture. It seems as if though the notion of the book is that of praising the west (France) while speaking less o

Il libro, composto da un centinaio di pagine, è diviso in quattro lettere che ufficiali indiani mandano alle famiglie raccontando la loro esperienza nelle trincee e nelle retrovie della prima guerra mondiale. Le lettere sono ovviamente frutto della fantasia dell'autore, che compie la delicata operaz

This is a collection of four stories set during WWI and seen through the eyes of Indian soldiers serving in Europe as they write letters home to their loved ones in India. This is the final book of Kipling's fiction from India. It gives the reader a sense of the times.

This is the second collection of Kipling’s that I’ve read (the first being The Gate of The Hundred Sorrows published by Penguin in the Little Black Classics format.) I enjoyed reading that and have enjoyed reading this one as well. There’s no doubt that Kipling sahib has some serious talent with reg

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