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Plain tales from the hills with a biographical sketch

This 1889 volume offers an early edition of Kipling's first collection of short stories.

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  • "Works"
  • "My first plain tales"@en
  • "My first plain tales"
  • "Plain tales"
  • "Military tales"@en
  • "Sammlung"
  • "Collected works"
  • "Plain tales from the hills"
  • "(Plain tales from the hills)"@it

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  • "Die Serie "Meisterwerke der Literatur" beinhaltet die Klassiker der deutschen und weltweiten Literatur in einer einzigartigen Sammlung für Ihren eBook Reader. Lesen Sie die besten Werke grosser Schriftsteller,Poeten, Autoren und Philosophen auf Ihrem Reader. Dieses Werk bietet zusätzlich * Eine Biografie/Bibliografie des Autors. Dieser Band enthält die folgenden Geschichten des bekannten Schriftstellers: Lispeth Drei Walzer - - und eine Extratour Vergeudet Miss Youghals "Sais" Im Joch Zwielicht Pluffles' Befreiung Amors Pfeile Die drei Musketiere Der Wendepunkt Uhren Der Andere Folgen Die Bekehrung Aurelian Mc. Goggins Die Einnahme von Lungtungpen Der Bazillentöter Entführt Die Verhaftung des Leutnants Golightly Im Hause Suddhoos Seine Ehefrau Der Rekordbrecher Jenseits Irrungen Ein Bankbetrug Toddy's Antrag Die Tochter des Regiments In der Blüte seiner Jugend Schweine Die Flucht der Weissen Husaren Die Bronckhorst'sche Scheidung Venus Annodomini Der Bisara von Pooree Meines Freundes Freund Das Tor der hundert Leiden Der Wahnsinn des Gemeinen Ortheris Die Geschichte von Muhammad Din Auf Grund einer Ähnlichkeit Wressley vom Auswärtigen Amt Eine mündliche Botschaft Ad acta zu legen."
  • "Contains 28 short stories about people living in India at the time of the British Raj."
  • "This 1889 volume offers an early edition of Kipling's first collection of short stories."@en
  • "The daughter of Sonoo a Hill-man."@en
  • "Quarante petits textes qui montrent le talent de conteur de l'écrivain sous toutes ses facettes."
  • ""Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination ... Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore, when Kipling was a journalist, the tales were later revised by him to re-create as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for readers at home."--Page 4 of cover."@en
  • ""Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination ... Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore, when Kipling was a journalist, the tales were later revised by him to re-create as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for readers at home."--P. [4] of cover."@en
  • "A stunning compilation of Kipling's 'best bits'. Plain tales from the hills' are stories based upon Rudyard Kipling's experiences as a British man living in India in the late 19th century. All written before he was twenty-two years old, these amazing and colourful stories are evidence of Kipling's propensity for story-telling, and are as various and memorable as India herself."@en
  • "Plain Tales from the Hills, published in 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, British India, (now in Pakistan) between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." The title refers, by way of a pun on 'Plain' as the reverse of 'Hills' ..."@en
  • "This 1909 volume offers an illustrated edition of Kipling's first short story collection."@en
  • "The forty-two stories in this, Kipling's first collection of tales, originally published in 1888, were written and set in India."@en
  • "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."
  • "Short stories of Indian life."@en

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  • "Translations"
  • "Cuentos ingleses"@es
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Dime novels"@en
  • "Anthologie"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Nowele angielskie"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Jeugdliteratuur"
  • "Sample books"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Short stories, English"@en
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Short stories"
  • "Verhalen (teksten)"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Specimens"@en
  • "Specimens"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)"@en
  • "Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)"
  • "Dummies (Publishing)"

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  • "Schlichte Geschichten aus den indischen Bergen"
  • "Engelskmænd i Indien : Korte Historier"@da
  • "Plain tales from the hills, by Rudyard Kipling"
  • "Nel Paese alto : racconti alla buona"
  • "Schlichte Geschichten aus den indischen Bergen (Plain Tales from the Hills)"
  • "Plain tales from the hills with a biographical sketch"@en
  • "Plain tales from the hills : 1886-1887"@en
  • "Plain tales from the hills : with a biographical sketch by Charles Eliot Norton"@en
  • "Plain tales from the hills"@ja
  • "Plain tales from the hills"
  • "Plain tales from the hills"@en
  • "Plain tales from the hills, with a biographical sketch"@en
  • "Engelskmænd i Indien"
  • "Engelskmænd i Indien"@da
  • "Engelskmaend i Indien"
  • "Nouveaux contes des collines. [Twenty-two tales from "Plain Tales from the Hills."]"@en
  • "Nouveaux contes des collines"
  • "Plain Tales from the Hills"
  • "Plain Tales from the Hills"@en
  • "Schlichte Geschichten aus Indien"
  • "Nel paese alto : racconti alla buona = (Plain tales from the hills)"@it
  • "... Nouveaux contes des collines"
  • "Simples contes des collines. Traduit ... par Albert Savine"
  • "Simples contes des collines"
  • "Simples contes des collines"@en
  • "Indische Erzählungen"
  • "Plain tales from the hill"
  • "Plain Tales From the Hills"@en
  • "Simples contes des collins"
  • "Plain tales from the hills : the works of Rudyard Kipling"@en
  • "Simples contes des collines. (Nouveaux Contes des Collines.) Traduit ... par Albert Savine. [Eighteen tales from "Plain Tales from the Hills."]"
  • "Cuentos de la montaña"@es
  • "Plain tales from the hills : With a biographical sketch by Charles Eliot Norton... By Rudyard Kipling"
  • "Plain tales from the hills. The works of Rudyard Kipling"@en
  • "Plain tales from the hills. The works of Rudyard Kipling"
  • "Simples contes des collines. Traduit de l'anglais, par Albert Savine"
  • "Schlichte Geschichten aus Indien ... Übersetzt von Leopold Rosenzweig. [From "Plain Tales from the Hills."]"
  • "Plain tales from the hills The works of Rudyard Kipling"@en
  • "PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILL"
  • "Nouveaux contes des collins"
  • "Plain tales from the Hills"
  • "Plain tales from the hills : with a biographical sketch"
  • "Plain Tales From The Hills"@en
  • "Simples Contes des Collines"
  • "Forty tales from the hills"@en
  • "Plains tales from the hills"
  • "Kleine Geschichten aus den Bergen"
  • "Plain tales from the hills, with a biographical sketch by Charles Eliot Norton"@en
  • "Plain tales from the hills. [Volume 3]"@en
  • "Schlichte Geschichten aus den indischen Bergen = (Plain tales from the hills)"
  • "[Plain Tales from the Hills.]"
  • "[Plain Tales from the Hills.]"@en
  • "Plain tales from the hills : With a biographical sketch by Charles Eliot Norton. Revised edition. By Rudyard Kipling"
  • "Plain Tales from the hills"
  • "Plain tales from the hils"
  • "Simple contes des collines"
  • "Plain tales from the hills Rudyard Kipling ; by H.R. Woudhuysen ; with an introduction and notes by David Trotter"
  • "Plain tales from the hills : the witings in prose and verse of Rudyard Kipling"@en
  • "Schlichte geschichten aus den indischen bergen"
  • "Plain tales from the hills with a biographical sketch by Charles Eliot Norton"@en
  • "Plain tales fromm the hills"@en
  • "Simples contes des collines : ["Plain tales from the hills"]. Traduit de l'anglais par Albert Savine"
  • "Plain tales from the hills, by Rudyard Kipling. Authorized edition"
  • "Plain tales from the hills : [publisher's sample]"
  • "Schlichte Geschichten aus den indischen Bergen Erweiterte Ausgabe"
  • "Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling"
  • "Nel paese alto; racconti alla buona (Plain tales from the hills)"
  • "Plain Tales from the Hills : By Rudyard Kipling"

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