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Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard Kipling
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Named a "prophet of British imperialism" by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the clearest contemporary eye of any who described the British Raj. According to critic Douglas Kerr: "He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with." This force shines in THE PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS.
Named a "prophet of British imperialism" by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the clearest contemporary eye of any who described the British Raj. According to critic Douglas Kerr: "He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with." This force shines in THE PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS.
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I have seen Hayes argue with a tough horse—I have seen a tonga-driver coerce a stubborn pony—I have seen a riotous setter broken to gun by a hard keeper—but the breaking-in of Pluffles of the "Unmentionables" was beyond all these. He learned to fetch and carry like a dog, and to wait like one, too, for a word from Mrs. Reiver. He learned to keep appointments which Mrs. Reiver had no intention of keeping. He learned to take thankfully dances which Mrs. Reiver had no intention of giving him. He learned to shiver for an hour and a quarter on the windward. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
For any author it's more difficult to deal with such stories (instead of novels) as you have less time and space to prove your skills and keep the reader alert.
Mr. Kipling has some beautiful ones, as On The City Wall, some normal ones and a real piece of garbage: "Dray Wara Yow Dee"...more
Ugh - people on Goodreads reviewing books published 130 years ago complaining that they don't conform to modern ideals and sensibilities...
You don't have to defend attitudes of the past to learn from reading about them, and Kipling's book is a fascinating glimpse of life for the British in Nineteent
This is book number two in my challenge to read the complete works of Rudyard Kipling, in the order in which they were published.
I have fond memories of Kipling's Just So Stories from when I was a child, and I was later exposed to several of his short stories during my undergraduate years. After hav
A young subaltern, ribbed by his regiment for his sweet and gentle demeanour—especially cruelly ribbed by the Senior Subaltern—makes a public promise to repay the debt. A little boy, whose best friends happen to be the Indians he fraternises with, becomes the reason for an amendment in an important
Kipling is mostly a forgotten figure in America these days, where he is known primarily as the author of the children's stories in the "The Jungle Book" or a propagandist for the bad, racist British empire. Yet many clearly saw him as a great writer, enough so that he was one of the most popular wr