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Can I read Plain Tales from the Hills on EtoBox?
Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Plain Tales from the Hills about?
Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of 'heat and bewilderment and wasted effort and broken faith'. He writes brilliantly and hauntingly about the barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience but implacably crushed.
Who reads Plain Tales from the Hills?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Publisher
- London: Macmillan
- Published
- 1965
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (781 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14