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Plain Tales From the Hills (1886-1887): Digital Edition

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Today, Plain Tales from the Hills is best known as a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1888. 

But before Rudyard Published forty stories as Plain Tales From the Hills under his own signature, he and Alice Kipling published the stories without signature in the Civil & Military Gazette in the fall of 1886 and throughout 1887. The collaboration followed a series of successful collaborations between brother and sister, on Echoes (1884) and Quartette (1885). 

The version of Plain Tales published here follows the order and text of the first published version of the stories in the Civil & Military Gazette. We are including three stories authored by Alice Kipling in the order in which they appeared, as well as additional stories we speculate she may have collaborated with Rudyard on, or at the very least provided subject matter or details for.  Finally, stories appearing for the first time in the edition published in 1888 have been added to the bottom of the Table of Contents path.   

Contents of this path:

  1. Love-in-a-Mist—Not Reprinted (Alice Kipling)
  2. How It Happened—Not Reprinted (Alice Kipling)
  3. The Other Man (Rudyard Kipling)
  4. Three and—an Extra (Rudyard Kipling)
  5. The Rescue of Pluffles (Rudyard Kipling)
  6. The Arrest of Lieutenant GoLightly (Rudyard Kipling)
  7. Love: 'A Miss'—Not Reprinted ( )
  8. Lispeth (Rudyard Kipling)
  9. A Straight Flush—Not Reprinted (Rudyard Kipling)
  10. Venus Annodomini (Rudyard Kipling)
  11. Consequences (Rudyard Kipling)
  12. A Pinchbeck Goddess—Not Reprinted (Alice Kipling
  13. A Scrap of Paper—Not Reprinted (Rudyard Kipling)
  14. Our Theatricals—Not Reprinted (Rudyard Kipling)
  15. On the Strength of a Likeness (Rudyard Kipling)
  16. In Error (Rudyard Kipling)
  17. A Little Learning—Not Reprinted (Rudyard Kipling)
  18. His Wedded Wife (Rudyard Kipling)
  19. The Bisara of Pooree (Rudyard Kipling)
  20. The Three Musketeers (Rudyard Kipling)
  21. Kidnapped (Rudyard Kipling)
  22. Watches of the Night (Rudyard Kipling)
  23. His Chance in Life (Rudyard Kipling)
  24. The Broken-Link Handicap (Rudyard Kipling)
  25. The Taking of Lungtunpen (Rudyard Kipling)
  26. Tods' Amendment (Rudyard Kipling)
  27. A Bank Fraud (Rudyard Kipling)
  28. Bitters Neat— (Rudyard Kipling)
  29. Miss Youghal's Sais (Rudyard Kipling)
  30. The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin (Rudyard Kipling)
  31. A Friend's Friend (Rudyard Kipling)
  32. In the Pride of His Youth (Rudyard Kipling)
  33. The Daughter of the Remnant (Rudyard Kipling)
  34. A Germ Destroyer (Rudyard Kipling)
  35. Wressley of the Foreign Office (Rudyard Kipling)
  36. Haunted Subalterns—Outward Bound Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  37. Thrown Away (Rudyard Kipling)
  38. Pig (Rudyard Kipling)
  39. By Word of Mouth (Rudyard Kipling)
  40. "Yoked With an Unbeliever"—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  41. False Dawn—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  42. Cupid's Arrow—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  43. The House of Suddhoo—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  44. Beyond the Pale—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  45. The Route of the White Hussars—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  46. The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  47. The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  48. The Story of Muhammad Din—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  49. To Be Held for Reference—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)
  50. The Madness of Private Ortheris—​Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling)

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