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Synopsis
Across a simmering Indian setting, a master storyteller blends mystery, memory, and adventure.
The Phantom Rickshaw and other tales plunge readers into a world where urban Calcutta and high mountain kingdoms meet legend and longing. Kipling’s sharp voice brings to life soldiers, wanderers, and locals caught between old beliefs and modern pressures. Each story or vignette is steeped in atmosphere, with characters facing fate, desire, and the challenges of a vast, changing empire.
- Atmospheric portraits of life in India under colonial rule
- Tales of travel, courage, deception, and superstition
- Rich character studies from drivers and doctors to kings and dreamers
- Moments that mingle the real with the uncanny, and the humorous with the solemn
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Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems including “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” and “Danny Deever” which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim which became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in 1936
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