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Written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, these short stories were later revised for an English audience. Kipling vividly portrays Indiaβs sights and smells while exposing the heat, bewilderment, and broken faith of colonial life. His work examines the barriers between races, classes, and sexes, and the crushing of innocence that is not transformed into experience.
First publish date: 1800
Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature
Authors: Rudyard Kipling
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