Life's Handicap

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

Short folk tales from Northern India as only Kipling can tell them -- these tales have been collected from priests in the Chubara, from Ala Yar the carver, Jiwun Singh the carpenter, nameless men on steamers and trains round the world and a few from his father. This classic work of Rudyard Kipling includes mutiny, a wandering Jew and Georgie Porgy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605015057
Publisher:	MobileReference
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Mobi Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	552 KB

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English 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. --Wikipedia

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THE MAN WHO WAS The Earth gave up her dead that tide, Into our camp he came, And said his say, and went his way, And left our hearts aflame. Keep tally on the gun-butt score The vengeance we must take, When God shall bring lull reckoning, For our dead comrade's sake. Ballad. Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists upon being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle. The host never knows which side of his nature is going to turn up next. Dirkovitch was a Russian a Russian of the Russians who appeared to get/ his bread by serving the Czar as an officer in a Cossack regiment, and corresponding for a Russian newspaper with a name that was never twice alike. He was a handsome young Oriental, fond of wandering through unexplored portions of the earth, and he arrived in India from nowhere in particular. At least no living man could ascertain whether it was by way of Balkh, Badakshan, Chitral, Baluchistan, or Nepaul, oranywhere else. The Indian Government, being in an unusually affable mood, gave orders that he was to be civilly treated and shown everything that was to be seen. So he drifted, talking bad English and worse French, from one city to another, till he foregathered with Her Majesty's White Hussars in the city of Peshawur, which stands at the mouth of that narrow swordcut in the hills that men call the Khyber Pass. He was undoubtedly an officer, and he was decorated after the manner of the Kussians with little enamelled crosses, and he could talk, and(though this has nothing to do with his merits) he had been given up as a hopel...

Table of Contents

	The Lang Men o' Larut	1
	Reingelder and the German Flag	6
	The Wandering Jew	10
	Through the Fire	15
	The Finances of the Gods	21
	The Amir's Homily	27
	Jews in Shushan	32
	The Limitations of Pambe Serang	37
	Little Tobrah	43
	Bubbling Well Road	47
	The City of Dreadful Night	52
	Georgie Porgie	60
	Naboth	71
	The Dream of Duncan Parrenness	76
	The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney	83
	The Courting of Dinah Shadd	115
	On Greenhow Hill	144
	The Man Who Was	166
	The Head of the District	184
	Without Benefit of Clergy	212
	At the End of the Passage	241
	The Mutiny of the Mavericks	267
	The Mark of the Beast	290
	The Return of Imray	307
	Namgay Doola	322
	Bertran and Bimi	336
	Moti Guj--Mutineer	343