The Top 10 Short Stories - Rudyard Kipling: The top ten Short Stories written by Rudyard Kipling

Written by Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Robbie McNab and Elliot Fitzpatrick

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

Kipling in these more modern times is increasingly seen as an apologist for the bad ways of evil empires. It’s a simplistic analysis and avoids much of his literary talent that is entertaining, scary and down right brilliant story telling whatever the background it is based on or comes from.

01 - Top 10 - Rudyard Kipling - An Introduction

02 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1

03 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2

04 - They

05 - The Phantom Rickshaw

06 - My Own True Ghost Story

07 - Mark of the Beast

08 - Baa Baa Black Sheep

09 - The Maltese Cat

10 - Mary Postgate

11 - The Gardener

12 -At the End of the Passage

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541860

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.