Plain Tales from the Hills: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Plain Tales from the Hills, credited to Rudyard Kipling, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Plain Tales from the Hillls, by Rudyard Kipling. Read by Mike Harris.] Named a "prophet of British imperialism" by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the clearest contemporary eye of any who described the British Raj. According to critic Douglas Kerr: "He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with." This force shines in THE PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. (Introduction by Mike Harris)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Plain Tales from the Hills
• Author credits: Rudyard Kipling
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 7:03:57

Catalogue topics

• LibrVox
• Short Stories
• India
• Travel

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - Lispeth — 10:52
2. 02 - Three And An Extra — 8:38
3. 03 - Thrown Away — 16:51
4. 04 - Miss Youghal's Sais — 11:23
5. 05 - Yoked With An Unbeliever — 8:55
6. 06 - False Dawn — 16:33
7. 07 - The Rescue Of Pluffles — 10:58
8. 08 - Cupid's Arrows — 10:03
9. 09 - His Chance In Life — 11:59
10. 10 - Watches Of The Night — 11:57
11. 11 - The Other Man — 8:10
12. 12 - Consequences — 11:17
13. 13 - The Conversion Of Aurelian Mcgoggin — 11:13
14. 14 - A Germ Destroyer — 10:50
15. 15 - Kidnapped — 10:25
16. 16 - The Arrest Of Lieutenant Golightly — 12:03
17. 17 - The House Of Suddhoo — 18:28
18. 18 - His Wedded Wife — 12:20
19. 19 - The Broken Link Handicapped — 11:43
20. 20 - Beyond The Pale — 13:09
21. 21 - In Error — 8:40
22. 22 - A Bank Fraud — 14:01
23. 23 - Tod's Amendment — 12:32
24. 24 - In The Pride Of His Youth — 13:10

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