Plain Tales from the Hills (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

The forty-two stories in this, Kipling’s first collection of tales, originally published in 1888, were written and set in India. Characters from his novel Kim appear in several of them. This 1916 edition includes “Lispeth,” “Three and—an Extra,” “Thrown Away,” “Yoked with an Unbeliever,” “False Dawn,” “The Rescue of Pluffles,” “Cupid’s Arrows,” and many more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411459243
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
Sales rank:	734,285
File size:	482 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a pastmaster of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”