Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The White Man's Burden" (1899) and "If--" (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story";[

CONTENTS
VOLUME I DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND OTHER VERSES
GENERAL SUMMARY
ARMY HEADQUARTERS
STUDY OF AN ELEVATION, IN INDIAN INK
A LEGEND
THE STORY OF URIAH
THE POST THAT FITTED
DELILAH
WHAT HAPPENED
PINK DOMINOES
THE MAN WHO COULD WRITE
MUNICIPAL
A CODE OF MORALS
THE LAST DEPARTMENT
OTHER VERSES
THE VAMPIRE
TO THE UNKNOWN GODDESS
THE RUPAIYAT OF OMAR KAL'VIN
LA NUIT BLANCHE
MY RIVAL
THE LOVERS' LITANY
A BALLAD OF BURIAL
DIVIDED DESTINIES
THE MASQUE OF PLENTY
THE MARE'S NEST
POSSIBILITIES
CHRISTMAS IN INDIA
PAGETT, M.P.
THE SONG OF THE WOMEN
A BALLAD OF JAKKO HILL
THE PLEA OF THE SIMLA DANCERS
THE BALLAD OF FISHER'S BOARDING-HOUSE
AS THE BELL CLINKS
AN OLD SONG
CERTAIN MAXIMS OF HAFIZ
THE GRAVE OF THE HUNDRED HEAD
THE MOON OF OTHER DAYS
THE UNDERTAKER'S HORSE
THE FALL OF JOCK GILLESPIE
ARITHMETIC ON THE FRONTIER
THE BETROTHED
A TALE OF TWO CITIES

VOLUME II BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS
BALLADS
THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST
THE LAST SUTTEE
THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S MERCY
THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S JEST
THE BALLAD OF BOH DA THONE
THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER CATTLE THIEF
THE RHYME OF THE THREE CAPTAINS
THE BALLAD OF THE CLAMPHERDOWN
THE BALLAD OF THE "BOLIVAR"
THE ENGLISH FLAG
AN IMPERIAL RESCRIPT
TOMLINSON
BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS
TOMMY
SOLDIER, SOLDIER
SCREW-GUNS
GUNGA DIN
LOOT
'SNARLEYOW'
THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR
BELTS
THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER
MANDALAY
FORD O' KABUL RIVER
ROUTE MARCHIN'

VOLUME III. THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW
MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY
THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
"THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD"

VOLUME IV UNDER THE DEODARS
THE EDUCATION OF OTIS YEERE
AT THE PIT'S MOUTH
A WAYSIDE COMEDY
THE HILL OF ILLUSION
A SECOND-RATE WOMAN
ONLY A SUBALTERN
IN THE MATTER OF A PRIVATE
THE ENLIGHTENMENTS OF PAGETT, M.P.

VOLUME V PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS
LISPETH
THREE AND--AN EXTRA.
THROWN AWAY.
MISS YOUGHAL'S SAIS.
YOKED WITH AN UNBELIEVER.
FALSE DAWN.
THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES.
CUPID'S ARROWS.
HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.
WATCHES OF THE NIGHT.
THE OTHER MAN.
CONSEQUENCES.
THE CONVERSION OF AURELIAN McGOGGIN.
A GERM DESTROYER.
KIDNAPPED.
THE ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GOLIGHTLY.
THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO
HIS WEDDED WIFE.
THE BROKEN LINK HANDICAPPED.
BEYOND THE PALE.
IN ERROR.
A BANK FRAUD.
TODS' AMENDMENT.
IN THE PRIDE OF HIS YOUTH.
PIG.
THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS.
THE BRONCKHORST DIVORCE-CASE.
VENUS ANNODOMINI.
THE BISARA OF POOREE.
THE GATE OF A HUNDRED SORROWS.
THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN.
ON THE STRENGTH OF A LIKENESS.
WRESSLEY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE.
BY WORD OF MOUTH.
TO BE HELD FOR REFERENCE.

VOLUME VI THE LIGHT THAT FAILED
VOLUME VII THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS
Preface
POOR DEAR MAMMA
THE TENTS OF KEDAR
WITH ANY AMAZEMENT
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
FATIMA
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.
THE SWELLING OF JORDAN

VOLUME VIII from MINE OWN PEOPLE
BIMI
NAMGAY DOOLA
THE RECRUDESCENCE OF IMRAY
MOTI GUJ--MUTINEER
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
Captains Courageous
Stalky & Co.
Kim
Life's Handicap
The Day's Work
Traffics and Discoveries
Actions and Reactions
A Diversity of Creatures
Soldiers Three
Indian Tales
Plain Tales from the Hills
Barrack Room Ballads


The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter who goes blind. A 1903 Broadway play starring Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and his wife Gertrude Elliott made the story more famous. It was made into a 1916 silent film by Pathé with Robert Edeson and Jose Collins and a 1940 film by Paramount starring Ronald Colman as Heldar with Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino, and Walter Huston.