Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

Excerpt: "In Northern India stood a monastery called The Chubara of Dhunni Bhagat. No one remembered who or what Dhunni Bhagat had been. He had lived his life, made a little money and spent it all, as every good Hindu should do, on a work of piety—the Chubara. That was full of brick cells, gaily painted with the figures of Gods and kings and elephants, where worn-out priests could sit and meditate on the latter end of things; the paths were brick paved, and the naked feet of thousands had worn them into gutters. Clumps of mangoes sprouted from between the bricks; great pipal trees overhung the well-windlass that whined all day; and hosts of parrots tore through the trees. Crows and squirrels were tame in that place, for they knew that never a priest would touch them."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783962725853
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	10/17/2018
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	259
File size:	878 KB

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling; (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. 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". (Wikipedia)

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