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Some of his best are stories of the supernatural, the eerie and unearthly, such as "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Brushwood Boy," and "They." His tales of gruesome horror include "The Mark of the Beast" and "The Return of Imray." "William the Conqueror" and "The Head of the District" are among his political tales of English rule in India.
26 de jul. de 2011 · My understanding is that in India there are the Plains and there are the Hills (a euphemistic term for the Himalayas) so there is something of a pun carried in the title 'Plain Tales from the Hills'. You could not wish to find forty more varied and penetrating stories about Anglo/Indian society under the Raj than those which make up this book.
- Rudyard Kipling
Plain tales from the hills by Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Publication date 1889 Topics British, British -- India -- Fiction, India -- History -- British occupation ...
True to its title, "Plain Tales From The Hills", Kipling's first major work as a writer, is indeed a collection of humdrum situations. The title also refers ironically to how the stories and their characters and situations span from the hills to the plains of India, the very regions where Kipling worked as a journalist on his return to his birthplace in adulthood.
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'.
30 de dez. de 1991 · First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette they were written before he reached the age of 22; and they show a remarkably precocious literary talent.
- Rudyard Kipling
Plain tales from the hills by Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Publication date 1900 Topics British, British -- India -- Fiction, India -- History -- British occupation ...
