The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jan Montefiore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

Contributor:

Montefiore, Jan.

Series:

Penguin classics

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 573 pages ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

Man who would be king : selected stories of Rudyard Kipling

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York : Penguin Books, 2011.

Summary:

This collection of Kipling's short stories, follows the development of his work over fifty years, and range from the harsh, cruel, world of the "Indian" stories, through the "experimental modernism of his middle period, to the highly wrought subtleties of his later pieces"--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

The gate of the hundred sorrows

In the house of Suddhoo

The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes

Lispeth

Beyond the pale

Dray wara yow dee

At the pit's mouth

A wayside comedy

The story of Muhammed Din

Little Tobrah

The finances of the Gods

Baa baa, black sheep

The man who would be king

Naboth

On the city wall

"The city of dreadful night"

At the end of the passage

The drums of the fore and aft

With the main guard

On Greenhow Hill

Without benefit of clergy

The bridge-builders

The Maltese cat

"The finest story in the world"

The ship that found herself

Mrs. Bathurst

"They"

"Wireless"

The village that voted the earth was flat

The house surgeon

Mary Postgate

A Madonna of the trenches

The janeites

His gift

The wish house

The gardener

Dayspring mishandled

The manner of men.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0141442352

9780141442358

OCLC:

681497333

Publisher Number:

99945014616