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This volume contains a collection of short stories written by the seminal English poet and author, Rudyard Kipling. The stories are varied in their themes and range from supernatural tales to science fiction. This wonderful collection is worthy of a place on any bookshelf, and will be of particular value to fans and collectors of Kipling's work. The stories include: "An Habitation Enforced", "The Recall", "Garm - A Hostage", "The Power of the Dog", "The Mother Hive", "The Bees and the Flies", "With the Night Mail", "The Four Angels", "A Deal in Cotton", "The New Knighthood", and many more. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was a seminal English short-story writer, novelist, and poet. He is most famous for writing many stories and poems concerning British soldiers in India. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
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A selection of short stories by Kipling, along with a poem loosely related to each story.
I am looking for the positives in this book, but coming up short of a way to talk it up. Most of it was terrible. As I detest poetry, there was, in fairness, never any hope for that, but of the stories, only one stood out.
That story was Garm - a Hostage. A story about a dog, set in India. I enjoyed that story a lot. It was a four star read. Of all the other stories they felt incredibly dated, and despite no small effort, I failed to enjoy any of them enough to persist with reading them. That says a lot, as I will generally carry on with even a mediocre story to the end, even though I often regret it.
Some I simply couldn't understand (With the Night Mail, The Puzzler) others just didn't go anywhere fast enough (Little Foxes, The House Surgeon, A Deal in Cotton).
I can't go beyond two stars.