Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

Classic Kipling stories, including THE LANG MEN O' LARUT, REINGELDER AND THE GERMAN FLAG, THE WANDERING JEW, THROUGH THE FIRE, THE FINANCES OF THE GODS, THE AMIR'S HOMILY, JEWS IN SHUSHAN, THE LIMITATIONS OF PAMBE SERANG, LITTLE TOBRAH, BUBBLING WELL ROAD, 'THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT', GEORGIE PORGIE,
NABOTH, THE DREAM OF DUNCAN PARRENNESS, THE INCARNATION OF KRISHNA MULVANEY, THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD, ON GREENHOW HILL, THE MAN WHO WAS, THE HEAD OF THE DISTRICT, WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY, AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE, THE MUTINY OF THE MAVERICKS, THE MARK OF THE BEAST, THE RETURN OF IMRAY. NAMGAY DOOLA, BERTRAN AND BIMI, and MOTI GUJ--MUTINEER. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English author and poet. Born in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai), he is best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894) and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1902), his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), If— (1910); and his many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2] The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined."

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ISBN-13:	9781455354054
Publisher:	Samizdat Express
Publication date:	07/01/2017
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About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His fiction works include The Jungle Book — a classic of children’s literature — and the rousing adventure novel Kim, as well as books of poems, short stories, and essays. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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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