The portable Kipling
Presents a representative selection from the works of Rudyard Kipling, with an introductory commentary and chronology by Irving Howe.
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Harmondsworth [Middlesex] ; New York, N.Y. :
Penguin Books,
c1982.
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| Series: | Viking portable library
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Table of Contents:
- Chronology with dates of major publications
- Stories. Stories of India : The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes ; The man who would be king ; Without benefit of clergy ; Lispeth ; The head of the district ; The miracle of Purun Bhagat ; The story of Muhammad Din ; Jews in Shushan. Soldiers' tales : The courting of Dina Shadd ; On Greenhow Hill ; Black Jack. From The jungle books : Toomai of the elephants ; The king's ankus. From Just so stories : How the rhinoceros got his skin ; The cat that walked by himself. Entertainments : The village that voted the earth was flat ; Brugglesmith ; Brother Square-Toes ; "A priest in spite of himself." Historical stories : The church that was at Antioch ; The eye of Allah. Utopian/antiutopian. As easy as A.B.C. Late stories : Mrs. Bathurst ; Friendly Brook ; The wish house ; Mary Postgate ; The gardener ; Dayspring mishandled
- Poems. L'envoi ; The broken men ; McAndrew's hymn ; The "Mary Gloster" ; The last chantey ; The long trail ; The gipsy trail ; The last of the LIght Brigade ; The settler ; My boy Jack ; The vampire ; When earth's last picture is painted ; The holy war ; France ; Mesopotamia ; The veterans ; The white man's burden ; Recessional ; "For all we have and are" ; The benefactors ; The craftsman ; "When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre" ; Epitaphs of the war ; Danny Deever ; Tommy ; Gunga Din ; The widow at Windsor ; Mandalay ; Private Ortheris's song ; Shillin' a day ; That day ; The ladies ; The sergeant's weddin' ; Chant-pagan ; Piet ; The return ; "Cities and thrones and powers" ; The recall ; The way through the woods ; Sir Richard's song ; A charm ; Cold iron ; The water ; Harp song of the Dane women ; A St. Helena lullaby ; The fabulists ; A Pict song ; MacDonough's song ; The heritage ; Mowgli's song against people; Song of the galley-slaves ; The Roman centurion's song ; Dane-geld ; Norman and Saxon ; Edgehill fight ; The Dutch in the Medway
- Essays. Literature ; An interview with Mark Twain ; My great and only.
