Plain Tales from the Hills

Plain Tales from the Hills  (1888)  by Rudyard Kipling

information about this edition.  Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, 29 were initially published in the '"Civil and Military Gazette" in Lahore, British India, (now in Pakistan) between November 1887 and June 1888. Some of the characters in these stories reappear in the novel Kim. — Excerpted from Plain Tales from the Hills on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

Cover of the First Edition (1888)

Table of Contents

  Dedication and Preface

1. Lispeth
2. Three and—an Extra
3. Thrown Away
4. Miss Youghal's Sais
5. 'Yoked with an Unbeliever'
6. False Dawn
7. The Rescue of Pluffles
8. Cupid's Arrows
9. The Three Musketeers
10. His Chance in Life
11. Watches of the Night
12. The Other Man
13. Consequences
14. The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
15. The Taking of Lungtungpen
16. A Germ-Destroyer
17. Kidnapped
18. The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
19. In the House of Suddhoo
20. His Wedded Wife
21. The Broken-Link Handicap
22. Beyond the Pale
23. In Error
24. A Bank Fraud
25. Tods' Amendment
26. The Daughter of the Regiment
27. In the Pride of his Youth
28. Pig
29. The Rout of the White Hussars
30. The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case
31. Venus Annodomini
32. The Bisara of Pooree
33. A Friend's Friend
34. The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
35. The Madness of Private Ortheris
36. The Story of Muhammad Din
37. On the Strength of a Likeness
38. Wressley of the Foreign Office
39. By Word of Mouth
40. To be Filed for Reference

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