Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections
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VOLUME 1. THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW
MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY
THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
"THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD"
VOLUME 2. UNDER THE DEODARS
THE EDUCATION OF OTIS YEERE
I
II
AT THE PIT'S MOUTH
A WAYSIDE COMEDY
THE HILL OF ILLUSION
A SECOND-RATE WOMAN
ONLY A SUBALTERN
IN THE MATTER OF A PRIVATE
THE ENLIGHTENMENTS OF PAGETT, M.P.
VOLUME 3. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS
LISPETH
THREE AND—AN EXTRA.
THROWN AWAY.
MISS YOUGHAL'S SAIS.
"E. STRICKLAND."
YOKED WITH AN UNBELIEVER.
FALSE DAWN.
THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES.
CUPID'S ARROWS.
HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.
WATCHES OF THE NIGHT.
THE OTHER MAN.
CONSEQUENCES.
THE CONVERSION OF AURELIAN McGOGGIN.
A GERM DESTROYER.
KIDNAPPED.
THE ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GOLIGHTLY.
THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO
HIS WEDDED WIFE.
THE BROKEN LINK HANDICAPPED.
BEYOND THE PALE.
IN ERROR.
A BANK FRAUD.
TODS' AMENDMENT.
IN THE PRIDE OF HIS YOUTH.
PIG.
THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS.
THE BRONCKHORST DIVORCE-CASE.
VENUS ANNODOMINI.
THE BISARA OF POOREE.
THE GATE OF A HUNDRED SORROWS.
THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN.
ON THE STRENGTH OF A LIKENESS.
WRESSLEY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE.
BY WORD OF MOUTH.
TO BE HELD FOR REFERENCE.
VOLUME 4. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
VOLUME 5. THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS
Preface
To THE ADDRESS OF
CAPTAIN J. MAFFLIN,
RUDYARD KIPLING.
POOR DEAR MAMMA
(AN INTERVAL OF THREE WEEKS.)
THE WORLD WITHOUT
THE TENTS OF KEDAR
WITH ANY AMAZEMENT
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
FATIMA
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.
(INTERVAL OF FIVE WEEKS.)
THE SWELLING OF JORDAN
THIS IS THE END OF THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS
VOLUME 6. FROM MINE OWN PEOPLE
BIMI
NAMGAY DOOLA
THE RECRUDESCENCE OF IMRAY
MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER
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About the author
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.
Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined.
Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."
