Twenty-eight short stories evoking the author's experiences in India, America, and England.

Stories of the bizarre and fantastic, set in India, England, France, and aboard ship.

Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short stories, the tales about India and more noticeably about the British in India. The title refers, by way of a pun on "Plain" as the reverse of "Hills", to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla-the "summer capital of the British Raj" during the hot weather. The tales include the first appearances, in book...

Seven tales that explain special things about animals, such as how the whale got his tiny throat, the camel his hump and the leopard his spots.

SHORT STORIES