Plain Tales from the Hills (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199538611 ISBN 13: 9780199538614

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. His vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, these tales with their brevity and concentration of effect are landmarks in the history of the short story as an art-form.

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About this title

About the Author:

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in India. He went to school in England and then returned to India to be a writer and a journalist.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199538611
• ISBN 13: 9780199538614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279
• Editor: Rutherford Andrew