Plain Tales from the Hills By Rudyard Kipling Book cover type:paperback-1 the novelist Dorothy Van Doren

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Plain Tales from the Hills By Rudyard Kipling Book cover type:paperback-1 the novelist Dorothy Van DorenFirst published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kiplings first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette they were written before he reached the age of 22; and they show a remarkably precocious literary talent. His vignettes of life in Brittish India a hundred years ago give vivid insight into Anglo India at work and play, into a barrack room life, and into the character of