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EVERYMAN'S POETRY LIBRARY: Includes the ever-popular 'If', along with the best of Kipling's powerful, fluent poetry. This new series of the world's greatest poetry features the hallmarks of Everyman Classics: top-quality production and reader-friendly design along with helpful notes... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
First Sentence edit
Ere the steamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Chronology Note on the Text
1.Lispeth 1
2.Three and - an Extra 5
3.In the House of Suddhoo 9
4.Beyond the Pale 15
5.The Story of Muhammad Din 20
6.With the Main Guard 24
7.On the City Wall 37
8.The Man who would be King 57
9.Baa Baa, Black Sheep 90
10.On GreenhowHill 114
11.'Brugglesmith'130
12.'Love-o'-Women' 143
13.The Bridge-Builders 163
14.The Devil and the Deep Sea 190
15.My Sunday atHome 209
16.The Cat that Walked byHimself 221
17.The Bonds ofDiscipline 234
18.'They' 256
19.Mrs Bathurst 276
20.The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat 293
21.In the Presence 325
22.Mary Postgate 337
23.Sea Constables 351
24.The Bull that Thought 367
25.The Gardener 381
26.Dayspring Mishandled 391
27.Fairy-Kist 409
28.A General Summary 425
29.The Story of Uriah 426
30.A Code of Morals 427
31.The Man Who Could Write 429
32.The Betrothed 430
33.Danny Deever 433
34.Tommy 434
35.'Fuzzy-Wuzzy' 436
36.Oonts 437
37.Loot 439
38.The Widow at Windsor 441
39.Gunga Din 442
40.Mandalay 444
41.Gentlemen-Rankers 446
42.Fordo' Kabul River 448
43.The Conundrum of the Workshops 449
44.In the Neolithic Age 451
45.The 'Mary Gloster' 453
46.McAndrew's Hymn 460
47.The Song of the Banjo 466
48.The Song of the Dead 469
49.The Deep-Sea Cables 471
50.The Three-Decker 472
51.'When 'OmerSmote 'Is Bloomin' Lyre' 474
52.TheKing 474
53.That Day 475
54.Recessional 478
55.The White Man's Burden 479
56.Chant-Pagan 480
57.Lichtenberg 482
58.TheFiles 484
59.TheIslanders 486
60.Mother o' Mine 490
61.Merrow Down 490'
62.Cities and Thrones and Powers' 492
63.Harp Song of the Dane Women 492
64.A Smuggler's Song 493
65.The Four Angels 494
66.The Way through the Woods 495
67.If- 496
68.Dane-geld 497
69.Big Steamers 498
70.The Children 499
71.The Fabulists 500
72.The Survival 501
73.We and They 502
74.The Coiner 503
75.Gethsemane 505
76.The Craftsman 505
77.The Female of the Species 506
78.'For All We Have and Are' 508
79.My Boy Jack 510
80.Epitaphs of the War 510
81.Mine Sweepers 517
82.The Gods of the Copybook Headings 518
83.Hymn of Breaking Strain 521
84.'TinFish' 522
85.The Storm Cone 523
86.The Appeal 524
App. A Kipling's India 525
App. B The British Army in India 528
Notes 530
Further Reading 687
Index of Titles (stories) 693
Indexof Titles and First Lines (verse) 695
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Classics › Kipling, Rudyard
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Poets, A-Z › ( K ) › Kipling, Rudyard
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Kipling, Rudyard
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs
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