Mrs. Bathurst and Other Stories

by Rudyard Kipling, John Bayley (Editor), Lisa Lewis (Editor)

A selection of Kipling's later stories that range over subjects such as ghosts, hauntings, and the rejoicing of a pioneer motorist on his new-found freedom of the countryside. Two of his most famous uncollected stories are also included: "Proofs of a Holy Writ" and "'Teem, a Treasure Hunter".

Mrs. Bathurst
Wireless
They
The edge of the evening
The dog Hervey
Mary Postgate
Regulus
The wish house
The bull that thought
The gardener
The eye of Allah
Dayspring mishandled
The manner of men
Proofs of holy writ
Teem, a treasure-hunter

Genres: Short Stories

320 pages, Paperback

First published June 6, 1991

About the author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.

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."

Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. On the night of 12 January 1936, Kipling suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery, but died less than a week later on 18 January 1936 at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Kipling's death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."

Reviews

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Contains the stories:

Mrs. Bathurst
Wireless
They
The Edge of the Evening
The Dog Hervey
Mary Postgate
Regulus
The Wish House - 3/5 - told mostly through dialogue in a strong Sussex accent as one woman tells the other of her trip to a "Wish-House" to help the man she loves
The Bull That Thought
The Gardener
The Eye of Allah
Dayspring Mishandled
The Manner of Men
Proofs of Holy Writ
'Teem:' A Treasure-Hunter

[Verónica Ortiz · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was a very hard reading. I coudn´t grasp the idea the first time I read it. But now, I can say this is justa a history about 4 people talking. They talk about a men, and a woman, and their suppoused affair. He was married, but then his wife died before he came out. So he would come a free man. And then he goes to the arms that of his love. Or so it seems.
They speak from their experences and from what they have heard. But nothing is certain. So you could belive them or not, or supposed wherever you want about the ending of this history.