Told almost entirely in dialogue like a play, the story follows Captain Gadsby of the hussars from bachelor flirtations in Anglo-Indian society through courtship and marriage to Minnie Threegan. Kipling dedicates it to a friend as an Awful Warning about what marriage does to a soldier’s career and nerve.
Early Kipling from his Indian Railway Library years, sharp on the manners and private dramas of the Raj. Download the free EPUB.