Tales of Empire - A Short Story Collection: Across the Imperial Landscape are tales of ghosts, gods and the human spirit.
Written by Rudyard Kipling, Bithia Mary Croker, Ethel Dell and
Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe and Elliot Fitzpatrick
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About this audiobook
In this volume we put together stories from a wide range of classic authors, including Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Talbot Mundy, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, H Rider Haggard and many others to view the British Empire both from the inside as subjects and from the outside as writers through engrossing narratives. These literary leviathans could observe, sample, question and report as part of an Empire upon which the sun never set and who’s morals were sometimes good, but often bad, as it bestrode the world as Imperial policeman and bully-in-chief grabbing the profits of others as it imposed a Pax Britannica that was in reality only of real benefit to the elite at home.
Times may have changed yet these stores offer a fascinating insight into the world as it was.
1 - Tales of Empire - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction
2 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling
3 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling
4 - Long Odds by H Rider Haggard
5 - The Indian Orphan. A Tale by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
6 - The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad
7 - Those Who Wait by Ethel Dell
8 - The Metropolitian Emigrant by John Galt
9 - His Unconquerable Enemy by W C Morrow
10 - The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy
11 - An Outcast of the People by Bithia Mary Croker
12 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt
13 - The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet who began writing in India and shortly found his work celebrated in England. An extravagantly popular, but critically polarizing, figure even in his own lifetime, the author wrote several books for adults and children that have become classics, Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous and others. Although taken to task by some critics for his frequently imperialistic stance, the author’s best work rises above his era’s politics. Kipling refused offers of both knighthood and the position of Poet Laureate, but was the first English author to receive the Nobel prize.
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