''The Day's Work'' is a collection of short stories 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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. It was first published in 1898. There are no poems included between the different stories in ''The Day's Work'', as there are in many other of Kipling's collections.
Contents
The book contains 13 short stories, which were mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Four of the stories contained in ''The Day's Work'' include anthropomorphic characters.
#"The Bridge-Builders"
#"A Walking Delegate"
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The Ship that Found Herself"
#"The Tomb of His Ancestors"
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The Devil and the Deep Sea"
#"William the Conqueror - part I"
#"William the Conqueror - part II"
#"
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".007" (originally subtitled "The Story of an American Locomotive") is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is a story in which steam locomotives are characters (".007" is the serial number of the protagonist), somewhat like the later, better-k ...
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#"The Maltese Cat"
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Bread upon the Waters"
#"An Error in the Fourth Dimension"
#"My Sunday at Home"
#"The Brushwood Boy"
See also
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List of the works of Rudyard Kipling
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1898 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1898.
Events
*January 13 – Émile Zola's open letter to Félix Faure, President of France, on the Dreyfus affair, '' J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front pag ...
References
External links
* Text of ''The Day's Work'' a
Project Gutenbergan
Internet Archive
1898 short story collections
Short story collections by Rudyard Kipling
Doubleday & McClure Company books
Nautical short stories
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