Soldiers Three
by Rudyard Kipling 
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books. He is regarded as an innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are enduring classics. This is a collection of short stories.Tags
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Still I hear the echoes of the old music: "We be Soldiers Three -- Pardonnez moi, je vous en pris. Lately come forth from the low countree, with never a penny of money."
The contents of this slim volume are most of the stories of Kipling's three soldiers, and a single page preface from the author.
The God From the Machine
Private Learoyd's Story
The Big Drunk Draf'
The Solid Muldoon
With the Main Guard
In the Matter of a Private
Black Jack
Only a Subaltern
The contents of this slim volume are most of the stories of Kipling's three soldiers, and a single page preface from the author.
The God From the Machine
Private Learoyd's Story
The Big Drunk Draf'
The Solid Muldoon
With the Main Guard
In the Matter of a Private
Black Jack
Only a Subaltern
A brief look at Kipling and British Empire building.
866 Soldiers Three, by Rudyard Kipling (read 31 Aug 1966) My brother-in-law lent me this book as it was a special favorite of his. I was underwhelmed by it, did no post-reading note, and now remember little about it. Wikipedia has an article which tells more about this collection of short stories.
The Cameo Classics were a Grosset & Dunlap reprint series of illustrated classics published from 1935 until the late 1940s. The books were mostly Illustrated Editions Co. books rebranded with the Cameo Classics series name. The books had a clear, acetate dust jacket and were boxed in a slipcase with an illustrated cover. The series contained illustrated versions of classic titles published earlier in more expensive editions.
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Kipling, who as a novelist dramatized the ambivalence of the British colonial experience, was born of English parents in Bombay and as a child knew Hindustani better than English. He spent an unhappy period of exile from his parents (and the Indian heat) with a harsh aunt in England, followed by the public schooling that inspired his "Stalky" show more stories. He returned to India at 18 to work on the staff of the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette and rapidly became a prolific writer. His mildly satirical work won him a reputation in England, and he returned there in 1889. Shortly after, his first novel, The Light That Failed (1890) was published, but it was not altogether successful. In the early 1890s, Kipling met and married Caroline Balestier and moved with her to her family's estate in Brattleboro, Vermont. While there he wrote Many Inventions (1893), The Jungle Book (1894-95), and Captains Courageous (1897). He became dissatisfied with life in America, however, and moved back to England, returning to America only when his daughter died of pneumonia. Kipling never again returned to the United States, despite his great popularity there. Short stories form the greater portion of Kipling's work and are of several distinct types. Some of his best are stories of the supernatural, the eerie and unearthly, such as "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Brushwood Boy," and "They." His tales of gruesome horror include "The Mark of the Beast" and "The Return of Imray." "William the Conqueror" and "The Head of the District" are among his political tales of English rule in India. The "Soldiers Three" group deals with Kipling's three musketeers: an Irishman, a Cockney, and a Yorkshireman. The Anglo-Indian Tales, of social life in Simla, make up the larger part of his first four books. Kipling wrote equally well for children and adults. His best-known children's books are Just So Stories (1902), The Jungle Books (1894-95), and Kim (1901). His short stories, although their understanding of the Indian is often moving, became minor hymns to the glory of Queen Victoria's empire and the civil servants and soldiers who staffed her outposts. Kim, an Irish boy in India who becomes the companion of a Tibetan lama, at length joins the British Secret Service, without, says Wilson, any sense of the betrayal of his friend this actually meant. Nevertheless, Kipling has left a vivid panorama of the India of his day. In 1907, Kipling became England's first Nobel Prize winner in literature and the only nineteenth-century English poet to win the Prize. He won not only on the basis of his short stories, which more closely mirror the ambiguities of the declining Edwardian world than has commonly been recognized, but also on the basis of his tremendous ability as a popular poet. His reputation was first made with Barrack Room Ballads (1892), and in "Recessional" he captured a side of Queen Victoria's final jubilee that no one else dared to address. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1895
- People/Characters
- John Learoyd (Private); Terence Mulvaney (Private); Stanley Ortheris (Private)
- Epigraph
- Soldiers Three (The God from the Machine):
Hit a man an' help a woman, an' ye can't be far wrong anyways.
Maxims of Private Mulvaney.
The Story of the Gadsbys: a tale without a plot, 1888-90 (Poor Dear Mamma):
The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky,
The deer to the wholesome wold,
And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,
As it was in the days... (show all) of old.
The Gipsy Trail.
In Black and White (Dray Wara Yow Dee):
For jealousy is the rage of man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. - Proverbs vi 34 - First words
- Soldiers Three (The God from the Machine): The Inexpressibles gave a ball. They borrowed a seven-pounder from the Gunners, and wreathed it with laurels, and made the dancing-floor plate-glass, and provided a supper, the like ... (show all)of which had never been eaten before, and set two sentries at the door of the room to hold the trays of progamme cards. My friend, Private Mulvaney, was one of the sentries ...
The Story of the Gadsbys: a tale without a plot, 1888-90 (Poor Dear Mamma):
Miss Deercourt: And he said: 'I shall never forget this dance,' and, of course, I said: 'Oh!, how can you be so silly!' Do y... (show all)ou think he meant anything, dear?
In Black and White (Dray Wara Yow Dee):
Almonds and raisins, Sahib? Grapes from Kabul? Or a pony of the rarest if the Sahib will only come with me. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In Black and White (Dray Wara Yow Dee):
And now, O my brother, the tale is all told. Ahi! Ahi! Alghias! Ahi!
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