Plain Tales From the Hills
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Rudyard Kipling. (2005). Plain Tales From the Hills. Unabridged Canongate Books.

Rudyard Kipling. 2005. Plain Tales From the Hills. Canongate Books.

Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales From the Hills. Canongate Books, 2005.

Rudyard Kipling. Plain Tales From the Hills. Unabridged Canongate Books, 2005.

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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. STORY LISTINGS: 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.

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     March 29, 2010
     Set principally in Shimla, the mountain town and summer capital of the Raj, Kipling's 40 short stories on the manners and mores of British settlers in India are well observed and masterful character studies. Martin Jarvis begins beautifully; his warm voice is a rich and textured instrument, and he becomes Kipling's narrator effortlessly; rather like Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway, Kipling's stand-in casts a camera-like view on the intrigue, pettiness, and genuine tragedies in his little world. There is wit that borders on the Wildean (“She was wicked, in a businesslike way. There was never any scandal; she had not generous impulses enough for that”). It would be a nearly flawless listen—but for Jarvis's inaccurate and rather cringe-inducing accents for the Indian characters.

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   • content: Jornado is a journey, for revenge. With clarity and feeling, Gene Engene reads the story of Clint Evans's search for his wife's murderer. His accents, especially that of Mexican Phillipe, are neither overdone nor too emphatic. The characters are differentiated, and dramatization adds individuality to each one. The story highlights the way that seeking revenge changes people. A traditional story of the Old West well told. S.C.A. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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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
...

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