Abaft the Funnel

<p><em>Abaft the Funnel</em> is a collection of short stories and essays by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1909 in the United States although the works within it were mostly written earlier-primarily in the late 1880s and early 1890s-during Kipling's time in India and shortly afterward.</p><p>The pieces in <em>Abaft the Funnel</em> had originally appeared in various newspapers and periodicals including <em>the Civil and Military Gazette</em> and <em>The Pioneer</em> but had not previously been collected in book form. They include light fiction travel sketches social commentary and journalistic observations often written in a breezy humorous style. The tone tends to be more informal and less polished than his better-known stories like those in <em>Plain Tales from the Hills</em> or <em>The Jungle Book</em>.</p>