Plain tales from the hills

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Rudyard Kipling: Plain tales from the hills (1888, Thacker, Spink, W. Thacker)

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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; …

microform, 283 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 1888 von Thacker, Spink, W. Thacker veröffentlicht.

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Review of 'Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics)' on 'Goodreads'

Big Kipling fan here, but I did not much care for this collection of eight stories. The last one, "The Enlightenments of Pagett, M. P." is not much of a story at all, more a series of didactic monologues against the beginnings of home-rule (by Indians) for India. "The Hill of Illusion" is told entirely in dialogue, unusual for Kipling, and so at least the form is interesting. Similarly, the other stories have interesting aspects, but seem unfinished or, in one case, overly sentimental. Good for Kipling aficionados.

hat Plain Tales from the Hills von Rudyard Kipling besprochen

Review of 'Plain Tales from the Hills' on 'Goodreads'

Big Kipling fan here, but I did not much care for this collection of eight stories. The last one, "The Enlightenments of Pagett, M. P." is not much of a story at all, more a series of didactic monologues against the beginnings of home-rule (by Indians) for India. "The Hill of Illusion" is told entirely in dialogue, unusual for Kipling, and so at least the form is interesting. Similarly, the other stories have interesting aspects, but seem unfinished or, in one case, overly sentimental. Good for Kipling aficionados.