Simla, the hill station where the Raj spent its summers, is the setting for these stories of wit and gossip, where all things begin and many come to an evil end. Mrs. Hauksbee tries to make a dull civil servant into a success, illicit lovers ride to the edge of a cliff, a diphtheria scare upends a hotel, and a visiting MP learns nothing about India.
Early Kipling at his sharpest, written in his early twenties; its imperial outlook is that of the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.