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Original Title:	A Diversity of Creatures
ISBN:	0140186948 (ISBN13: 9780140186949)
Edition Language:	English

A Diversity of Creatures

Rudyard Kipling

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

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Title	:	A Diversity of Creatures
Author	:	Rudyard Kipling
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	May 3rd 1994 by Penguin Classics (first published 1941)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Short Stories. Literature. 20th Century. Fiction

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Reading Kipling’s short stories is always for me an occluded glimpse into a far time. This collection is more so than others, however. Much of it is very hard to understand, and I expect I often failed.

It starts out with a story from what I think is the same world of The Night Mail. But it’s one in which the ruling technocrats of the Aerial Board of Control has very clearly been corrupted by their power.

Transportation is Civilisation. Democracy is Disease.

Also stories about the maturing effect of land ownership. And a very funny story about a stuffed-up reformer letting loose a cloud of bees upon a small village.

Obviously, since her one practical joke costs her her life, the bee can have but small sense of humour; but her fundamentally dismal and ungracious outlook on life impressed me beyond words.

And in the “female of the species is more dangerous than the male” genre, taking place during World War I there is a scene of tragi-comic relief in which one woman is trying to see the bright side of a young airman’s death, and another only the dark side of it. The airman’s parents had died while he was quite young, over a decade past, and the grieving Mary Postgate says that at least he’ll be with his parents again.

'I've thought of that too,' wailed Mrs. Grant; 'but then he'll be practically a stranger to them. Quite embarrassing!'

As is often (possibly always) the case with Kipling’s stories, each is followed by an illuminating poem.

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The most obvious recurring theme in the collection is revenge, and not always in a good way.A collection of kiplings strangest tales with almost every one accompanied by a linked poem.

Kipling in (mostly) comedic mode with short stories bookended by poems mirroring the same themes.Though diverse in character as the title suggests, most of these stories are affectionate satires involving the social strata he was part of and knew best - the public school educated officer class. All of these were very funny and made me wonder once again at how these overgrown boys ever managed to run an empire raised on a diet of Latin verbs and spanked bottoms. 'The Honours of War' was an

Of Miss Mary Postgate, Lady McCausland wrote that she was 'thoroughly conscientious, tidy, companionable, and ladylike. I am very sorry to part with her, and shall always be interested in her welfare.' Miss Fowler engaged her on this recommendation, and to her surprise, for she had had experience of companions, found that it was true.Published in 1917, this book contains both poems and short stories, with the poems often based on the same subject matter as the preceding story. It starts with a



Reading Kiplings short stories is always for me an occluded glimpse into a far time. This collection is more so than others, however. Much of it is very hard to understand, and I expect I often failed.It starts out with a story from what I think is the same world of The Night Mail. But its one in which the ruling technocrats of the Aerial Board of Control has very clearly been corrupted by their power. Transportation is Civilisation. Democracy is Disease.Also stories about the maturing effect of

eclectic collection of kipling's short stories

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator inThe most obvious recurring theme in the collection is revenge, and not always in a good way.A collection of kiplings strangest tales with almost every one accompanied by a linked poem.