Actions and Reactions – Rudyard Kipling (1920)

S$45.00

Actions and Reactions – Rudyard Kipling (1920)

S$45.00

Title: Actions and Reactions

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1920, Part of the Collection of British Authors series.

Condition: Half leather with marbled boards. Pocket size. Fair. Pages tanned. Sticker of back endpaper, inscription to title page. 292pp.

SKU: kipling-action Categories: ,

A collection of short stories and poems, alternating, by Kipling, in one of his lesser-known works.  Each story has a different theme; for example, the battle between conservatism and liberalism in ‘The Mother Hive’, a description of a futuristic airship in ‘With the Night Mail’, and a questionable cotton business in India in ‘A Deal in Cotton’.

Contents:

AN HABITATION ENFORCED

THE RECALL

GARM—A HOSTAGE

THE POWER OF THE DOG

THE MOTHER HIVE

THE BEES AND THE FLIES

WITH THE NIGHT MAIL

THE FOUR ANGELS

A DEAL IN COTTON

THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD

THE PUZZLER

LITTLE FOXES

GALLIO’S SONG

THE HOUSE SURGEON

THE RABBI’S SONG