Plain Tales from the Hills conjures up an intimate, evocative, often funny portrait of India. These unabridged observations of the British in India and Indian life were originally commissioned for The Civil and Military Gazette where Kipling worked as a journalist in the 1880s. Incredibly, Kipling wrote these famous and atmospheric pieces before he was twenty-two and they aptly illustrate his genius as a storyteller whose words and voice have stood the test of time.

Stories included:

The Other Man

Three and an Extra

The Rescue of Pluffles

The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly

Lispeth

Venus Annodomini

Yoked with an Unbeliever

Consequences

On the Strength of a Likeness In Error

His Wedded Wife

The Bisara of Pooree

Watches of the Night

Cupid's Arrows

The Broken-Link Handicap

A Bank Fraud

Miss Yougal's Sais

Thrown Away

Beyond the Pale

A Germ Destroyer

The Taking of Lungtungpen

In the House of Suddhoo

The Bronckhorst Divorce

False Dawn