Rudyard KiplingBiblio.com
Rudyard KiplingBiblio.com
Plain Tales from the Hills 1915 dition
1915187-8<p>Handsome leather-bound revised edition. Clean tight and unmarked. An excellent example for collectors seeking a well-preserved Kipling without later rebinding.</p><p>First published in 1888 <em>Plain Tales from the Hills</em> introduced the world to Rudyard Kipling's sharp unsentimental and often darkly humorous vision of British colonial life in India. These interconnected stories—drawn from Kipling's early journalistic work—capture the contradictions of empire with remarkable clarity: loneliness ambition moral compromise and the quiet absurdities of power.</p><p>This <strong>1915 Doubleday Page & Company revised edition</strong> is presented in an elegant <strong>full leather binding</strong> with gilt lettering to the spine. The revised text reflects Kipling's later refinements while preserving the immediacy and bite that made these stories his literary breakthrough.</p><p>A handsome and highly readable volume this copy balances <strong>literary significance</strong> with <strong>aesthetic presence</strong> making it equally appealing for collectors Kipling enthusiasts or those building a refined classic literature library.</p> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
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