Plain Tales from the Hills

by Kipling, Rudyard; Rutherford, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780199538614
• ISBN10: 0199538611
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, sometimes pathetic, the Plain Tales with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story as an art-form.

Table of Contents

General Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. xii
Note on the Text	p. xxiii
Select Bibliography	p. xxx
A Chronology of Kipling's Life and Works	p. xxxiii
Plain Tales From The Hills
Dedication	p. 3
Preface	p. 5
Lispeth	p. 7
Three and-an Extra	p. 12
Thrown Away	p. 16
Miss Youghal's Sais	p. 24
'Yoked with an Unbeliever'	p. 30
False Dawn	p. 35
The Rescue of Pluffles	p. 43
Cupid's Arrows	p. 48
The Three Musketeers	p. 53
His Chance in Life	p. 59
Watches of the Night	p. 65
The Other Man	p. 71
Consequences	p. 75
The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin	p. 81
The Taking of Lungtungpen	p. 86
A Germ-Destroyer	p. 92
Kidnapped	p. 97
The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly	p. 102
In the House of Suddhoo	p. 108
His Wedded Wife	p. 116
The Broken-Link Handicap	p. 122
Beyond the Pale	p. 127
In Error	p. 133
A Bank Fraud	p. 137
Tod's Amendment	p. 144
The Daughter of the Regiment	p. 150
In the Pride of his Youth	p. 156
Pig	p. 162
The Rout of the White Hussars	p. 169
The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case	p. 179
Venus Annodomini	p. 185
The Bisara of Pooree	p. 190
A Friend's Friend	p. 195
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows	p. 201
The Madness of Private Ortheris	p. 207
The Story of Muhammad Din	p. 215
On the Strength of a Likeness	p. 218
Wressley of the Foreign Office	p. 224
By Word of Mouth	p. 229
To be Filed for Reference	p. 234
Bitters Neat	p. 243
Haunted Subalterns	p. 247
Explanatory Notes	p. 252
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