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4) Kim
Kimball O'Hara, is the orphan son of a British soldier and a half-caste opium addict in India. While running free through the streets of Lahore as a child he befriends a British secret service agent. Later, attaching himself to a Tibetan Lama on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life, Kim becomes the Lama's disciple, but is also used by the British to carry messages to the British commander in Umballa. Kim's trip with the Lama along the Grand
...Traffics and Discoveries is a collection of poems and short stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Stories (11):
The Captive
The Bonds of Discipline
A Sahibs' War
"Their Lawful Occasions" (as Part I and Part II)
The Comprehension of Private Copper
Steam Tactics
"Wireless"
The Army of a Dream (as Part I and Part II)
"They"
Mrs.
...Under the Deodars is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling:
"The Education of Otis Yeere"
"At the Pit's Mouth"
"A Wayside Comedy"
"The Hill of Illusion"
"A Second-rate Woman"
"Only a Subaltern"
"In the Matter of a Private"
"The Enlightenments of Pagett, M. P."
Excerpt:
"The motives that swayed the characters were beyond their comprehension; the fates that shifted them were gods they had never met; the sidelights Mrs. Cloke threw on act and incident were more amazing than anything in the record. Therefore the Chapins listened delightedly, and blessed Mrs. Shonts."But why--why--why--did So-and-so do so-and-so?" Sophie would demand from her seat by the pothook; and Mrs. Cloke would
...17) Life’s Handicap
Subtitled 'Being Stories of Mine Own People', Kipling wrote that these tales are 'from all places and all sorts of people'.
Limits and Renewals is a short story collection published by Rudyard Kipling in 1932:
The collection contains the following short stories:
Dayspring Mishandled
The Woman in His Life
The Tie
The Church that was at Antioch
Aunt Ellen
Fairy-Kist
A Naval Mutiny
The Debt
Akbar's Bridge
The Manner of Men
Unprofessional
Beauty Spots
The Miracle of
...Excerpt:
"There was much destroyer-work in the Battle of Jutland.The actual battle field may not have been more than twenty thousand square miles, but the incidental patrols,from first to last, must have covered many times that area. Doubtless the next generation will comb out every detail of it.All we need remember is there were many squadrons of battleships and cruisers engaged over the face of the North Sea,and that they were accompanied
...Excerpt:
"In the spring of the Paris Exhibition of 1878 my father was in charge of the Indian Section of Arts and Manufactures there, and it was his duty to arrange them as they arrived. He promised me, then twelve or thirteen years old, that I should accompany him to Paris on condition that I gave no trouble. The democracy of an English School had made that easy."