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    Quartette by Rudyard Kipling - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781788772471
    Quartette by Rudyard Kipling - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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      Quartette by Rudyard Kipling - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Rudyard Kipling

      The Complete Works of

      RUDYARD KIPLING

      VOLUME 6 OF 51

      Quartette

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 5

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Quartette’

      Rudyard Kipling: Parts Edition (in 51 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 247 1

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Rudyard Kipling: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 6 of the Delphi Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling in 51 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Quartette from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Rudyard Kipling, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Rudyard Kipling or the Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      RUDYARD KIPLING

      IN 51 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Stalky Stories

      The Novels

      1, The Light that Failed

      2, The Naulahka, a Story of West and East

      3, Captains Courageous

      4, Kim

      The Shorter Fiction

      5, The City of Dreadful Night

      6, Quartette

      7, Plain Tales from the Hills

      8, Soldiers Three and Other Stories

      9, Under the Deodars

      10, The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales

      11, Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories

      12, Life’s Handicap

      13, Many Inventions

      14, The Jungle Book

      15, The Second Jungle Book

      16, The Day’s Work

      17, Stalky & Co.

      18, Just So Stories for Little Children

      19, Traffics and Discoveries

      20, Puck of Pook’s Hill

      21, Actions and Reactions

      22, Abaft the Funnel

      23, Rewards and Fairies

      24, A Diversity of Creatures

      25, Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides

      26, Debits and Credits

      27, Thy Servant a Dog

      28, Limits and Renewals

      29, Tales of India: The Windermere Series

      30, The Complete Stalky & Co

      31, Proofs of Holy Writ

      The Travel Writing

      32, From Sea to Sea – Letters of Travel: 1887-1889

      33, American Notes

      34, Letters of Travel: 1892-1913

      35, Souvenirs of France

      36, Brazilian Sketches

      The Poetry

      37, The Complete Poems

      The Non-Fiction

      38, A Fleet in Being

      39, A History of England

      40, The New Army in Training

      41, France at War

      42, The Fringes of the Fleet

      43, Sea Warfare

      44, The War in the Mountains

      45, The Graves of the Fallen

      46, The Irish Guards in the Great War

      47, The Eyes of Asia

      48, How Shakspere Came to Write the ‘Tempest’

      The Speeches

      49, The Book of Words

      The Criticism

      50, The Criticism

      The Autobiography

      51, Something of Myself

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      Quartette

      With his father, mother and sister, Kipling published in 1885 this Christmas Annual, containing his first printed collection of prose.  There were eight pieces of prose and eight poems, of which two short stories were written by Kipling himself.  The annual was published in Lahore, India, and was priced at one rupee.

      The scarce first printing from India

      Kipling in his study, 1895

      CONTENTS

      THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW

      THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES

      THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW

        May no ill dreams disturb my rest,

        Nor Powers of Darkness me molest.

       — Evening Hymn.

      One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years’ service a man is directly or indirectly acquainted with the two or three hundred Civilians in his Province, all the Messes of ten or twelve Regiments and Batteries, and some fifteen hundred other people of the non-official caste. In ten years his knowledge should be doubled, and at the end of twenty he knows, or knows something about, every Englishman in the Empire, and may travel anywhere and everywhere without paying hotel-bills.

      Globe-trotters who expect entertainment as a right, have, even within my memory, blunted this open-heartedness, but none the less to-day, if you belong to the Inner Circle and are neither a Bear nor a Black Sheep, all houses are open to you, and our small world is very, very kind and helpful.

      Rickett of Kamartha stayed with Polder of Kumaon some fifteen years ago. He meant to stay two nights, but was knocked down by rheumatic fever, and for six weeks disorganized Polder’s establishment, stopped Polder’s work, and nearly died in Polder’s bedroom. Polder behaves as though he had been placed under eternal obligation by Rickett, and yearly sends the little Ricketts a box of presents and toys. It is the same everywhere. The men who do not take the trouble to conceal from you their opinion that you are an incompetent ass, and the women who blacken your character and

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