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Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, ´eight-and-twenty´, according to Kipling´s Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. ´The remaining tales are, more or less, new.´ (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the CMG?his first job?since 1882, when he was not quite 17.) The title refers, by way of a pun on Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, ´eight-and-twenty´, according to Kipling´s Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. ´The remaining tales are, more or less, new.´ (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the CMG?his first job?since 1882, when he was not quite 17.) The title refers, by way of a pun on ´Plain´ as the reverse of ´Hills´, to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla?the ´summer capital of the British Raj´ during the hot weather. Not all of the stories are, in fact, about life in ´the Hills´: Kipling gives sketches of many aspects of life in British India.(Excerpt from Wikipedia) Sofort per Download lieferbar Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage.

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