The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories

Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Prose Fictions

Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Pinney

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781108476423
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108750158
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Englische Literaturkritik

Rudyard Kipling's (1865–1936) work is known and loved the world over by children and adults alike; it has been translated into many languages, and onto the cinema screen. This volume brings together for the first time some 86 uncollected short fictions. Almost all of them will be unfamiliar to readers; some are unrecorded in any bibliography; some are here published for the first time. Most of them come from Kipling's Indian years and show him experimenting with a great variety of forms and tones. We see the young Kipling enjoying the exercise of his craft; yet the voice that emerges throughout is always unmistakably his own, changing the scene every time the curtain is raised.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Editorial Practice
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• The Tragedy of Crusoe, C.S.
• Twenty Years After
• Dis Aliter Visum
• De Profundis
• The Unlimited “Draw” of “Tick” Boileau
• My Christmas Caller
• The History of a Crime
• Prisoners and Captives
• “From Olympus to Hades”
• “Les Miserables .”
• A Nightmare of Rule
• What Came of It
• An Official Secret
• Le Roi en Exil
• A Scrap of Paper
• The Mystification of Santa Claus
• “Love in Old Cloathes”
• The Case of Adamah
• A Tale of ’98
• A Rather More Fishy Case
• The House of Shadows
• The Confession of an Impostor
• The Judgment of Paris
• Five Days After Date
• The Hill of Illusion
• Le Monde ou L’On S’Amuse
• An Intercepted Letter
• The Recurring Smash
• How Liberty Came to the Bolan
• “Under Sentence”
• The Dreitarbund
• In Memoriam
• On Signatures
• The Great Strike
• “The Biggest Liar in Asia”
• Deputating a Viceroy
• A Merry Christmas
• The New Year’s Sermon
• New Year’s Gifts
• Mister Anthony Dawking
• “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
• The Wedding Guest
• The Tracking of Chuckerbutti
• “Bread upon the Waters”
• A Free Gift
• A Hill Homily
• The “Kingdom” of Bombay
• Bombaystes Furioso
• A Day Off
• The Unpunishable Cherub
• In Gilded Halls
• “Till the Day Break”
• The Fountain of Honour
• The Burden of Nineveh
• His Natural Destiny
• That District Log-Book
• An Unequal Match
• A Horrible Scandal
• An Exercise in Administration
• My New Purchase
• Exercises in Administration
• The Dignity of It.
• Exercises in Administration
• In Wonderland
• In the Year ’92
• “A Free Hand”
• Susannah and the Elder
• The Coming K
• What the World Said
• An Interesting Condition
• The Comet of a Season
• Gallihauk’s Pup
• The Inauthorated Corpses
• One Lady at Wairakei
• The Princess in the Pickle-Bottle
• Why Snow Falls at Vernet
• The Cause of Humanity
• Appendices
• Glossary of Indian and Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases