With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.
A., Ph.
D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling’s early writings.
In this rich collection, we encounter bold realism, poignant nostalgia, dark comedy, the vividly horrific, the exuberantly fanciful and the disturbingly uncanny.
Stories include:The Courting of Dinah ShaddOn Greenhow HillAt the End of the PassageThe Limitations of Pambé SerangThe Disturber of Traffic‘The Finest Story in the World’The Record of Badalia HerodsfootThe Ship that Found HerselfThe Maltese Cat‘Wireless’‘They’Mrs BathurstBelow the Mill Dam.
He gained immense popularity, becoming (as these Stories indicate) the knowledgeable spokesman for a wide public.
Later, although Kipling’s right-wing views increasingly incurred hostility, his creativity remained formidable.
A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social range.
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.
A., Ph.
D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling’s early writings
