Plain Tales from the Hills

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Cover of the book Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling, Penguin Books Ltd
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Author: Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 9780141958750
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Publication: August 30, 1990
Imprint: Penguin Language: English
Author: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN: 9780141958750
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication: August 30, 1990
Imprint: Penguin
Language: English

Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of 'heat and bewilderment and wasted effort and broken faith'. He writes brilliantly and hauntingly about the barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience but implacably crushed.

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Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of 'heat and bewilderment and wasted effort and broken faith'. He writes brilliantly and hauntingly about the barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience but implacably crushed.

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