Stories and Poems
1st Edition
Published on 8. October 2015
752 pages
978-0-19-103508-1 (ISBN)
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'Hear and attend and listen...'
Rudyard Kipling is a supreme master of the short story in English and a poet of brilliant gifts. His energy and inventiveness poured themselves into every kind of tale, from the bleakest of fables to the richest of comedies, and he illuminated every aspect of human behaviour, of which he was a fascinated (and sometimes appalled) observer. This generous selection of stories and poems, first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series, covers the full range of Kipling's career from the youthful volumes that brought him fame as the chronicler of British India, to the bittersweet fruits of age and bereavement in the aftermath of the First World War. It includes stories such as 'The Man who would be King', 'Mrs Bathurst', and 'Mary Postgate', and poems from Barrack-Room Ballads and other collections.
In his introduction and notes Daniel Karlin addresses the controversial political engagement of Kipling's art, and the sources of its imaginative power.
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Daniel Karlin has taught at University College London, Boston University and the University Sheffield before taking up his current post at the University of Bristol. He has published widely in Victorian literature, including editions of Robert Browning and books including Browning's Hatreds , Proust's English, and The Figure of the Singer. He has edited FitzGerald'sRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám for Oxford World's Classics.
Content
- Cover
- About the Author
- Oxford World's Classics
- Title
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Note on the Text
- STORIES
- From Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
- Lispeth
- Three and-an Extra
- In the House of Suddhoo
- Beyond the Pale
- The Story of Muhammad Din
- From Soldiers Three (1888)
- With the Main Guard
- From In Black and White (1888)
- On the City Wall
- From The Phantom Rickshaw (1888)
- The Man who would be King
- From Wee Willie Winkie (1888)
- Baa Baa, Black Sheep
- From Lift's Handicap (1891)
- On Greenhow Hill
- From Many Inventions (1893)
- 'Brugglesmith'
- 'Love-o'-Women'
- From The Day's Work (1898)
- The Bridge-Builders
- The Devil and the Deep Sea
- My Sunday at Home
- From Just So Stories (1902)
- The Cat that Walked by Himself
- From Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
- The Bonds of Discipline
- 'They'
- Mrs Bathurst
- From A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
- The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
- In the Presence
- Mary Postgate
- From Debits and Credits (1926)
- Sea Constables
- The Bull that Thought
- The Gardener
- From Limits and Renewals (1932)
- Dayspring Mishandled
- Fairy-Kist
- VERSE
- From Departmental Ditties and Other Verses (1886)
- A General Summary
- The Story of Uriah
- A Code of Morals
- The Man Who Could Write
- The Betrothed
- From Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (1892)
- Danny Deever
- Tommy
- 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy'
- Oonts
- Loot
- The Widow at Windsor
- Gunga Din
- Mandalay
- Gentlemen-Rankers
- Ford o' Kabul River
- The Conundrum of the Workshops
- In the Neolithic Age
- From The Seven Seas (1896)
- The 'Mary Gloster'
- McAndrew's Hymn
- The Song of the Banjo
- From A Song of the English
- The Song of the Dead
- The Deep-Sea Cables
- The Three-Decker
- 'When 'Omer Smote 'Is Bloomin' Lyre'
- The King
- That Day
- From The Five Nations (1903)
- Recessional
- The White Man's Burden
- Chant-Pagan
- Lichtenberg
- The Files
- The Islanders
- From Songs from Books and More Songs from Books (1912-32)
- Mother o' Mine
- Merrow Down
- 'Cities and Thrones and Powers'
- Harp Song of the Dane Women
- A Smuggler's Song
- The Four Angels
- The Way through the Woods
- If-
- Dane-geld
- Big Steamers
- The Children
- The Fabulists
- The Survival
- We and They
- The Coiner
- From The Years Between (1919)
- Gethsemane
- The Craftsman
- The Female of the Species
- 'For All We Have and Are'
- My Boy Jack
- Epitaphs of the War
- From Verse (Inclusive Edition) (1919)
- Mine Sweepers
- The Gods of the Copybook Headings
- Poems Collected in Editions after 1919
- Hymn of Breaking Strain
- 'Tin Fish'
- The Storm Cone
- The Appeal
- Appendix A. Kipling's India
- Appendix B. The British Army in India
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index of Titles (stories)
- Index of Titles and First Lines (verse)
