Kipling’s 1926 collection mixes comedy and grief in the years after the Great War. Shell-shocked soldiers find consolation in Jane Austen in The Janeites, an old countrywoman takes on another’s pain in The Wish House, and other stories range from Masonic lodges and Sea Constables to a bull that thinks, each paired with a poem.
Among Kipling’s finest and most moving late work, for readers who know him only from India. Download the free EPUB.