First published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series, this comprehensive selection of Kipling's stories and poems covers the full range of his career. It displays Kipling's comic mastery as well as his bleak insights into human behaviour, from the...
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First published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series, this comprehensive selection of Kipling's stories and poems covers the full range of his career. It displays Kipling's comic mastery as well as his bleak insights into human behaviour, from the days of British India to the aftermath of the First World War. With Introduction and full notes. Cover -- About the Author -- Oxford World's Classics -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- STORIES -- From Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) -- Lispeth -- Three and-an Extra -- In the House of Suddhoo -- Beyond the Pale -- The Story of Muhammad Din -- From Soldiers Three (1888) -- With the Main Guard -- From In Black and White (1888) -- On the City Wall -- From The Phantom Rickshaw (1888) -- The Man who would be King -- From Wee Willie Winkie (1888) -- Baa Baa, Black Sheep -- From Lift's Handicap (1891) -- On Greenhow Hill -- From Many Inventions (1893) -- 'Brugglesmith' -- 'Love-o'-Women' -- From The Day's Work (1898) -- The Bridge-Builders -- The Devil and the Deep Sea -- My Sunday at Home -- From Just So Stories (1902) -- The Cat that Walked by Himself -- From Traffics and Discoveries (1904) -- The Bonds of Discipline -- 'They' -- Mrs Bathurst -- From A Diversity of Creatures (1917) -- The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat -- In the Presence -- Mary Postgate -- From Debits and Credits (1926) -- Sea Constables -- The Bull that Thought -- The Gardener -- From Limits and Renewals (1932) -- Dayspring Mishandled -- Fairy-Kist -- VERSE -- From Departmental Ditties and Other Verses (1886) -- A General Summary -- The Story of Uriah -- A Code of Morals -- The Man Who Could Write -- The Betrothed -- From Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (1892) -- Danny Deever -- Tommy -- 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy' -- Oonts -- Loot -- The Widow at Windsor -- Gunga Din -- Mandalay -- Gentlemen-Rankers -- Ford o' Kabul River -- The Conundrum of the Workshops -- In the Neolithic Age -- From The Seven Seas (1896) -- The 'Mary Gloster' -- McAndrew's Hymn -- The Song of the Banjo -- From A Song of the English -- The Song of the Dead -- The Deep-Sea Cables -- The Three-Decker -- 'When 'Omer Smote 'Is Bloomin' Lyre'.
