Plain Tales from the Hills - Rudyard Kipling - Hurst & Company Hardback Tom Meany But no one there could

But no one there could be proud of its latest exclusive window display: the bloodstained corpse of the owner's wife

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He presents the country like a magic-lantern show

Plain Tales from the Hills - Rudyard Kipling - Hurst & Company Hardback Tom Meany But no one there couldCondition: Acceptable condition for a used book! Some wear. See images for the condition of this book. Blurb: First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette they were written before he reached the age of 22; and they show a remarkably precocious literary talent. His vignettes of life in British India a hundred years