Plain Tales from Hills (World Classics Unabridged)

<p>Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories "eight-and-twenty" according to Kipling's Preface were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore Punjab British India between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are more or less new." (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the CMG—his first job—since 1882 when he was not quite 17.)</p>