Abaft the Funnel

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

The measure of a man's popularity is not always or indeed seldom the measure of his intrinsic worth. So, when the earlier work of any writer is gathered together in more enduring form, catering to the enthusiasm of his readers in his maturer years, there is always a suspicion that his venture is purely a commercial one, without literary justification.

Fortunately these thirty-one stories of Mr. Kipling's form their own best excuse for this, their first appearance together in book form. Not merely because in them may be traced the origin of that style and subject matter that later made their author famous; but because the stories are in themselves worth while worth writing, and worth reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354543937
Publisher:	Alpha Editions
Publication date:	05/01/2021
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His fiction works include The Jungle Book — a classic of children’s literature — and the rousing adventure novel Kim, as well as books of poems, short stories, and essays. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Table of Contents

	Erastasius of the Whanghoa	1
	Her Little Responsibility	12
	A Menagerie Aboard	20
	A Smoke of Manila	26
	The Red Lamp	33
	The Shadow of His Hand	41
	A Little More Beef	49
	The History of a Fall	58
	Griffiths the Safe Man	66
	It	77
	The Fallen Idol	85
	New Brooms	91
	Tiglath Pileser	99
	The Like o' Us	109
	His Brother's Keeper	121
	"Sleipner," Late "Thurinda"	141
	A Supplementary Chapter	161
	Chautauquaed	180
	The Bow Flume Cable Car	204
	In Partibus	213
	Letters on Leave	218
	The Adoration of the Mage	251
	A Death in the Camp	258
	A Really Good Time	265
	On Exhibition	273
	The Three Young Men	283
	My Great and Only	292
	The Betrayal of Confidences	305
	The New Dispensation	313
	The New Dispensation--II	322
	The Last of the Stories	331