Kipling’s first book of verse, satirising the officials and wives of Anglo-Indian Simla, is paired here with the Barrack-Room Ballads that made him famous: “Danny Deever”, “Tommy”, “Gunga Din”, “Mandalay” and the rest, sung in the voice of the ordinary British soldier. They carry the imperial attitudes of the 1890s along with their energy and sympathy.
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