The Day's Work

Kipling, Rudyard

Published by Doubleday, Page & Co., N Y, 1911

About this Item

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Green cloth boards worn and a bit frayed at edges. Gilt title and embossed decoration. Previous owner's inscription inside. 432 pages. The Day's Work is a collection of 13 short stories by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1898, examining themes of labor, employment, and duty across various industries including bridge building, shipping, and transport, featuring both human characters and anthropomorphic animals and machines. Stories include: "The Bridge-Builders," "A Walking Delegate," "The Ship That Found Herself," "The Tomb of His Ancestors," "The Devil and the Deep Sea," "William the Conqueror" (Parts I & II), ".007," "The Maltese Cat," "Bread Upon the Waters," "An Error in the Fourth Dimension," "My Sunday at Home," and "The Brushwood Boy". Keywords: Bridge Builders, Vermont Stories, British Empire, Maltese Cat, Brushwood Boy, Short Fiction, Walking Delegate, Engineering, Plain Tales, Jungle Book, Doubleday Page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Day's Work
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co., N Y
• Publication Date: 1911
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction