The Story of the Gadsbys

by Rudyard Kipling

Publication

Eight linked stories in dialogue form, the first one appearing in The Week’s News of May 26th, 1888, and the series collected in Volume 2 of the Indian Railway Library as The Story of the Gadsbys; A Tale without a Plot. Finally collected in the first English edition of Soldiers Three in the same year and various editions thereafter.

1. Poor Dear Mamma

2. The World Without

3. The Tents of Kedar

4. With Any Amazement

5. The Garden of Eden

6. Fatima

7. The Valley of the Shadow

8. The Swelling of Jordan

see also Preface and L’Envoi

 
Ian Bell [18sep2025]