I think I’ve accidentally started a personal tradition of beginning the year with Kipling, and I’m not mad about it

A few duds (there always are), but some of these stories are just so good

Kipling is certainly fond of his three equivocal "heroes": Mulvaney, Ortheris, and Learoyd--they featured prominently in "Plain Tales" and in every story in this short collection. There are certainly laughs to be had, and wisdom about the slackening of Britain's hold on India, but one must read care

Set of short stories of the British and/or the people of India. The collection’s title really only applies to some of the stories at the beginning of the book.

I wasn't impressed. I like Rudyard Kipling, but I think I'll stay clear of his short stories from now on. The stories in this book struck me as ordinary. One of the reasons I rated it as a three-star instead of a two-star collection was because Rudyard held true to his style of writing which I happe

I liked most of the stories, but unless you are an excellent reader and a champion at staying on task, I cannot recommend this book. It is written phonetically and is very difficult to understand.

Je renoue avec le thème ayant fait le succès de « Kim » – une de mes toutes récentes lectures- et auquel Kipling s’attache fortement, à savoir l’occupation anglaise des terres d’Inde.

Dans ce recueil de nouvelles, l’écriture est truffée de mots empruntés au jargon militaire (et quelquefois hindi), ce

The main part of this book revolves around Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, which for Kipling he refer's to as 'the three musketeers'. I have found these books and short stories, all unique in there own terms, boring, drab and mundain. They become rather tedious at times. In part a look at Military L

Old but sterling silver reading. An evening with this book will be appreciated long afterwards. May even tempt one into some of the rest of the prodigious Kipling prose. No military experience required to generate a laugh at times.

Between the various dialects, British military terminology and pidgin Hindi, this book would be better read in translation. The three soldiers are an Irish man, a Yorkshire man, and a Londoner. This probably was the opening of some joke back in the days of the Raj, but, alas, lost on a modern audien

This is a very enjoyable collection of some of Kipling's Indian short stories. The only one I didn't care for was a play about the courtship and marriage of a couple in the army.