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Indian Tales
On the strength of this concession and his accumulated oil-savings, Janki Meah took a second wife--a girl of the Jolaha main stock of the Meahs, and singularly beautiful. Janki Meah could not see her beauty; wherefore he took her on trust, and forbade her to go down the pit. He had not worked for thirty years in the dark without knowing that the pit was no place for pretty...more
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Published
January 1st 2010
by MobileReference
(first published 1885)
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I was presented with the 1937 edition of Tales of India as a gift when I visited Sterling Publishing in October of 2010. I'm excited to finally get started reading it. The pages are old and crack easily so I'll have to be careful.
It took me forever to get through this book partly because I was being extra careful with the pages but mostly because it took me a long time to figure out the dialogue with the accents written in. Not exactly what I expected. I thought that it would be more about India...more
It took me forever to get through this book partly because I was being extra careful with the pages but mostly because it took me a long time to figure out the dialogue with the accents written in. Not exactly what I expected. I thought that it would be more about India...more
The stories, characters, situations, portrayals, dialogues are fresh, rich and funny, even though they were written almost a 100 years ago. The language was very Victorian so I had a tough time occasionally when my understanding and interest hit roadblocks of heavy and cursive words of Victorian times. But the stories probably would not have been so funny if not in such a honorary language justifying the colonial times the stories are based on. The most light and funny situations are explained i...more
I love British movies, especially BBC TV series. Those 90 minutes episodes seem to me funny, demure and the accent is more than sexy. Each of Kipling's Indian Tales looks like an episod of a BBC TV series.
Of course, the stories are easy to read but they stick to you and the next one always seems to be more interesting than the previous. Probably it's because of Kipling's subtle and funny style or maybe the exotic indian setting is to blame.
Anyway, Kipling doesn't seem to try hard. He does not w...more
Of course, the stories are easy to read but they stick to you and the next one always seems to be more interesting than the previous. Probably it's because of Kipling's subtle and funny style or maybe the exotic indian setting is to blame.
Anyway, Kipling doesn't seem to try hard. He does not w...more
This one is surely old wives tale from India.. I enjoyed some of the tales... But surely not the best of rudyard kipling
No lo recomiendo... seguro que hace un siglo esta literatura resultaba entretenida, ya no... waste of time!!
When I was a little child I enjoyed "The Jungle Book", now I a appreciate Kipling for a lot more than that. And I just started to discover the universe created by Kipling, other books are on my future reading list.
The "Indian Tales" is a collection of short novels centered on british life in colonies. As all books on this topic I enjoyed it.
My copy of this book is in romanian.
The "Indian Tales" is a collection of short novels centered on british life in colonies. As all books on this topic I enjoyed it.
My copy of this book is in romanian.
Read a good bit of this on my phone(ebook), but had to set it aside to make room for another ebook on my phone. Will come back to it though, as it was getting interesting.
Vividly detailed short stories from the days of the Raj.
Mar 30, 2013
Stephen Dartnell
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."
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intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in
her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she
adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or
interlard her speech with his pet oaths.”
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intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in
her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she
adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or
interlard her speech with his pet oaths.”
“Holden found one helpless little hand that closed feebly on his finger. And the clutch ran through his body till it settled about his heart. Till then his sole thought had been for Ameera. He began to realise that there was some one else in the world,...”
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