Plain Tales from the Hills

Plain Tales from the Hills  (1888)  by Rudyard Kipling

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

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

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1936, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.