Plain Tales from the Hills
Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of stories originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, now presented in this New Ed edition published by Penguin Books Limited on August 30, 1990. This edition spans 294 pages and is written in English. The tales were crafted for a provincial readership familiar with the complexities of colonial life, and Kipling revised them for an English audience, aiming to evoke the vivid sights and smells of India.
Readers will find that Kipling’s narratives delve into the intricacies of colonial existence, exploring themes of heat, bewilderment, and the disillusionment that accompanies broken faith. The stories address the barriers between races, classes, and genders, portraying innocence that is not transformed into experience but rather crushed by the weight of societal expectations. This collection offers a poignant reflection on the historical context of its time, making it a significant contribution to the literary canon of short stories.
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Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling’s stories tell of ‘heat and bewilderment and wasted effort and broken faith’. He writes brilliantly and hauntingly about the barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience but implacably crushed.
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