Kipling’s 1891 collection gathers tales of soldiers, officials and Indians, framed as stories heard among the mendicants of a north Indian monastery. Among them are The Man Who Was, The Mark of the Beast, Without Benefit of Clergy, about an Englishman’s secret Indian family, and The City of Dreadful Night, a sleepless walk through Lahore.
Powerful early Kipling whose imperial and racial attitudes are those of the 1890s Raj. Download the free EPUB.