''The Story of the Gadsbys'' is a story by
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
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[Rudyard Kipling (1888) ''The story of the Gadsbys, A Tale Without a Plot'', A. H. Wheeler, Allahaba]
/ref> It was originally published as no. 2 of the Indian Railway Library The Indian Railway Library was an enterprise conducted in Allahabad from 1888. It was a publishing venture of A. H. Wheeler & Co., who "had the monopoly on bookstall sales on Indian railway stations"
It was a series of pamphlets intended to catch ...
in 1888. ''The Story of the Gadsbys'' is written in dramatic form, consisting of eight short scenes (listed below). This short pamphlet, of 100 pages, was later collected in book form as the second part of ''Soldiers Three
''Soldiers Three'' is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection '' Plain Tales from the Hills''. The current version, ...
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*"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"
*"L'Envoi" (a poem)
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1888 short story collections
Short story collections by Rudyard Kipling
A. H. Wheeler books