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Barrack-Room Ballads is a compilation of Rudyard Kipling's songs and poems that predominantly uses a local dialect and focuses on the late Victorian British Army. The collection contains some of Kipling's most well-known poems, including "Gunga Din," "Tommy," "Mandalay," and "Danny Deever," which helped him gain early recognition as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer during the first half of 1890, and a compilation of them, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses was published in 1892. Later, Kipling brought it up again in a book of poetry named The Seven Seas. Ballads can be considered to be a subset of The Five Nations (1903), which also contained a number of extra uncollected poems and the third group of Boer War vernacular Army poetry titled "Service Songs.'' The main collection of Kipling's Ballads was published in the 1890s, in two volumes. The third group of poems, published in 1903, continued the theme of military vernacular ballads. The Ballads were first collected in one volume by Charles Carrington in 1973. Many of Kipling's short stories began with a little poem that was frequently referred to as a "Barrack-Room Ballad."

Rudyard Kipling's collection of short stories is titled The Day's Work. The Day's Work does not contain any poetry in between the several stories, unlike many of Kipling's previous collections. The general subject is one of labour and struggle, whether it is constructing a bridge, combating a famine, or watching horses give it their all to win a polo match. However, the literary style is frequently lighthearted, if not outright impish. He enjoys mimicking accents or making up conversations between horses, ponies, and even trains.On the farm, salting time is on a Sunday afternoon, and we take care of the animals as usual. The red oxen, Dave and Pete, are attended to first; they remain in the home meadow in preparation for labour on Monday. The cows follow, followed by Pan the calf, who survived due to his demeanour. The horses, which are dispersed throughout the Back Pasture's 70 acres, come last. Last month, the Dimbula, a brand-new steamer, docked in the High and Narrow Seas with cargo intended for New York. Since the days of Lieutenant-Fireworker Humphrey Chinn of the Bombay European Regiment, who aided with the conquest of Seringapatam in 1799, there has always been at least one representative of the Devonshire Chinns in or close to India.

'Under the Deodars' is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling and printed in 1889. These stories illustrating British life in Shimla and similar regions around India during the British rule. This book has consist of eight short stories: 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. In the first story, The Education of Otis Yeere, a brief look into how the smart, bored wives of government officials in India dealt with their boredom by fertilizing fortunes of hapless men from the rank and life. 'At the Pit's Mouth' is a tragic warning against conducting infidelities in a graveyard. 'A Wayside Comedy' is similar example against conducting adulteries in a hidden little circle, and 'The Hill of Illusion' rounds off a loose tripartition, with a deficient dialogue between nervous womanizer. The next two stories are based in the camps, both ending in death. 'Only a Subaltern' features a motivating young officer who goes beyond the call of duty for his men, then 'In the Matter of a Private' is a case of threatening where the worm turns. The final story 'The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P.', is the one to look at the India question as a whole and is primarily an exercise in informing the good people back home that they don't understand a thing about the country.

Puck of Pook's Hill is a short stories composition written by Rudyard Kipling. The composition of these fantasy stories, was first published, in 1906. In these short stories Puck, a magical Faun narrates British history, covering different periods to two children Dan and his sister Una. Pucks magic is amazing, he brings fantasy and history into the children's everyday world. He introduces characters from English history, Roman cavalier, old Christian pagan Gods and various other stories about Vikings, pirates, killer apes, smugglers fairies etc. Through his breadth of imagination author narrates beauty, comedy and tragedy of life. He also gives a vivid picture of war, politics, adventure, clash of conquerors and settlers of the region. Kipling depicts in these stories that honour is more important than pride and loyalty more important than gain. He says good craftsmanship, valour and daring spirit are valued. These stories are interspersed with beautiful poems composed by Kipling. By these stories Kipling inspires the youths to think for their motherland and show their love and respect.

'The Story of the Gadsbys' is a story by Rudyard Kipling and it was first printed in India in 1888. This is a short book written as a play. It pursues the young captain who is getting married, and each scene represents the different stages of the marriage. This book is written almost entirely in dialogue form. It shows a collection of eight very short stories written in melodramatic form and entitled: 'Poor Dear Mamma', 'The World Without', 'The Tents of Kedar', 'With any Amazement', 'The Garden of Eden', 'Fatima', 'The Valley of the Shadow', 'The Swelling of Jordan'. The most important characters of these short dramatic scenes are Captain Vasant and Miss D., along with the setting and the events described in these scenes are modern one, that are much closer to a comedy of manners. Though the plots of these scenes are not clear and consistent and the main theme dealt with this is related to family relations, manners and social classes. First printed in the Indian Railway Library as no. 2. These eight stories are in dramatic form with a final poem in four verses.

'Traffics and Discoveries' is a composition of 11 short stories and 11 poems written by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1904. It is a good composition of several short stories related with Boer War Period. In Bore War Indian Army was not involved because it was considerably white man's war. Presently, these stories related with war period seem outdated. But infact these stories show Kipling's vision of a reformer to reform British army. These stories give a terrific picture of British concentration camps and their inhuman behaviour to war prisoners. This depiction demoralise the native citizens. In his stories he also message that to safeguard the glory of British empire proper perpetual control and attentiveness is needed. War is a serious matter it should be dealt sincerely and execute benevolently. Stories related with new discoveries, science and technology are most significant like the car, the radio and electric power. Kipling showed his good knowledge of science and technology, he used terms and references related with new gadgets, army, navy, artillery, ships, wireless and car etc. Few stories are also based on fantasy and supernatural world.

'Soldiers Three' is a short stories composition written by Rudyard Kipling. It has three sections which were previously published in separate sections. Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris are the three soldiers - an Irish man, a Yorkshire man and a Londoner. These stories disclose soldiers life in Afghanistan and British policies rarely seen earlier to maintain British influence. These soldiers convey the raw fact of the war, in the mid-east as the British began to loosen their imperial hold. The characters about whom the stories are concerned are native Indians, rather than the British for writing about whom Kipling may be better known. The stories are good for those readers who enjoy history theater, short works of fiction and historical fiction. The play on Gadsby is the main justifying element of this book. This story of Gadsby is written in melodramatic form, comprising of eight short scenes. This short narration of 100 pages, was later collected in book form as the second part of Soldiers Three. Four of the stories are explained by the Indians, and four by an English journalist.

'The Seven Seas' is a book of poetry by Rudyard Kipling printed in 1896. The Seven Seas was one of Rudyard Kipling's accomplishments. Its poems effect the promise of the title page promoting a stormlashed, oilskin-clad sailor at the wheel. This was Kipling's first poetry collection since the smash hit 'Barrack Room Ballads' of 1892. It is splitted into two sections: 20 of the 34 poems in the first half are directly concerned with ships, sailors, and all but five of the others deal with the related topics of travel, communications technology and connections across space and/or time while further 'Barrack Room Ballads' conclude with the homeward-bound soldier of 'For to admire' considering an amazingly calm 'Injian Ocean'. The main theme of The Seven Seas is the global range of the British Empire, its regions divided by thousands of miles of salt water yet consolidated by the ships of the Royal Navy, the merchant fleet and the liners carrying their travellers between the continents. Numbers 1-25 are separate poems, all linked by the ideas of the sea and more or less specifically the British Empire. 'A Song of the English' is the longest poem, at around 20 pages. The Seven Seas celebrates British imperialism. It is a sharp, disenchanted series of poems centred on Britain's role in colonialism and Empire building with reverberations and powerful imagery.

Just So Stories is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works.These are some of the stories Kipling made up for his children. They are called 'Just So' because he told them again and again, and the children always wanted them to be told just the same.

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