Oxford World's Classics Plain Tales from the Hills, (Paperback)

from EricCostello

A collection of stories from Kipling written in the 1890s, all of which are set in the India of the Imperial Raj. They're of varying quality. The ones rendered in the argot of the soldiers can be quite difficult to parse, owing to the thickness of the accent, which lessens their effect. Others si...

from jadedlioness

An enjoyable collection of some very random and sometimes hilarious stories with strong undercurrents of Victorian attitudes and prejudices.

from m.belljackson

Winding through this slow-moving book of thankfully short short boring and redundant stories of the English experience with the natives of British India, I tried to find a favorite. The "object-letters" in "Beyond the Pale" were intriguing, then came the horror story ending. Instead, there was th...