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The Best Short Stories 12612

The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was феноменально productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and technical terms, exotic locations, and social range. He gained immense popularity, becoming (as these stories indicate) the knowledgeable spokesman for a wide public.

Later, although Kipling's right-wing views increasingly incurred hostility, his creativity remained formidable. In this rich collection, we encounter bold realism, poignant nostalgia, dark comedy, the vividly horrific, the багатослівний fanciful and the disturbingly моторошно.

Stories include:

The Courting of Dinah Shadd

On Greenhow Hill

At the End of the Passage

The Limitations of Pambe Serang

The Disturber of Traffic 'The Finest Story in the World'

The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot

The Ship Found that Herself

The Maltese Cat 'Wireless'

'They'

Mrs Bathurst

Below the Mill Dam