Stories and prose in their collections

1888 Plain Tales From the Hills – 40 tales
1890 Soldiers Three & Other Stories – 23 tales
1890 Wee Willie Winkie & Other Stories – 14 tales
1891 Life’s Handicap – 27 tales
1891 The Light that Failed – 1st Novel
1892 The Naulahka – 2nd Novel
1893 Many Inventions – 14 tales
1894 The Jungle Book – 7 tales
1895 The Second Jungle Book – 8 tales
1896 Captains Courageous – 3rd Novel
1898 The Day’s Work – 12 tales
1898 A Fleet in Being – 6 articles
1899 Stalky & Co. – 9 tales
1899 From Sea to Sea – 18 tales, 71 articles
1901 Kim – 4th Novel
1902 Just So Stories – 12 tales
1904 Traffics and Discoveries – 13 tales
1906 Puck of Pook’s Hill – 10 tales
1909 Actions and Reactions – 8 tales
1909 Abaft the Funnel – 30 tales
1910 Rewards and Fairies – 11 tales
1915 France at War – 6 articles
1915 The New Army in Training – 6 articles
1916 Sea Warfare – 11 articles
1917 The War in the Mountains – 5 articles
1917 A Diversity of Creatures – 14 tales
1917 The Eyes of Asia – 4 articles
1920 Letters of Travel (1892-1913) – 24 articles
1923 Land & Sea Tales for Scouts & Guides – 11 tales
1923 The Irish Guards in the Great War
1926 Debits and Credits – 14 tales
1928 A Book of Words – 38 speeches
1929 The Complete Stalky & Co. – 14 tales
1930 Thy Servant a Dog told by Boots – 3 tales
1932 Limits and Renewals – 14 tales
1933 Souvenirs of France – 2 articles
1934 Collected Dog Stories – 9 tales
1935 The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book – 1 tale
1937 Something of Myself – autobiography
1938 Thy Servant a Dog & other Dog Stories – 5 tales
1937-40 The Sussex Edition – various
1937-40 Brazilian Sketches – 7 articles
1986 Kipling’s India (1884-1888) – 56 articles
2008 A Second Book of Words – 48 speeches
2019 The Cause of Humanity & Other Stories – 86 items
uncollected – 2 tales

There are also many uncollected minor prose
works listed in the standard bibliographies.

The Collections

… and their contents

Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
Lispeth
Three and an Extra
Thrown Away
Miss Youghal’s Sais
Yoked with an Unbeliever
False Dawn
The Rescue of Pluffles
Cupid’s Arrows
The Three Musketeers
His Chance in Life
Watches of the Night
The Other Man
Consequences
The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
The Taking of Lungtungpen
A Germ Destroyer
Kidnapped
The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
In the House of Suddhoo
His Wedded Wife
The Broken-link Handicap
Beyond the Pale
In Error
A Bank Fraud
Tods’ Amendment
The Daughter of the Regiment
In the Pride of his Youth
Pig
The Rout of the White Hussars
The Bronckhorst Divorce Case
Venus Annodomini
The Bisara of Pooree
A Friend’s Friend
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
The Madness of Private Ortheris
The Story of Muhammad Din
On the Strength of a Likeness
Wressley of the Foreign Office
By Word of Mouth
To be Filed for Reference
(also see The Sussex Edition)

Soldiers Three and Other Stories (1890)

Soldiers Three, Indian Railway Library (Nov 1888)
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

The Story of the Gadsbys, Indian Railway Library (Dec 1888)
Poor Dear Mamma
The World Without
The Tents of Kedar
With any Amazement
The Garden of Eden
Fatima
The Valley of the Shadow
The Swelling of Jordan

In Black and White, Indian Railway Library (Jan 1889)
Dray Wara Yow Dee
The Judgment of Dungara
At Howli Thana
Gemini
At Twenty-Two
In Flood Time
The Sending of Dana Da
On the City Wall

Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories (1890)

Under the Deodars, Indian Railway Library (Jan 1889)
The Education of Otis Yeere
At the Pit’s Mouth
A Wayside Comedy
The Hill of Illusion
A Second-Rate Woman
Only a Subaltern

The Phantom Rickshaw, Indian Railway Library (Feb 1889)
The Phantom Rickshaw
My Own True Ghost Story
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Man who Would be King

Wee Willie Winkie, Indian Railway Library (Mar 1889)
Wee Willie Winkie
Baa Baa, Black Sheep
His Majesty the King
The Drums of the Fore and Aft
(also see The Sussex Edition)

Life’s Handicap (Aug 14th 1891)
(DS) The Courting of Dinah Shadd (Sept 1890)
(MOP) Mine own People (Mar 1891)
The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney (DS)
The Courting of Dinah Shadd (DS)
On Greenhow Hill (DS)
The Man who Was (DS)
The Head of the District
Without Benefit of Clergy (DS)
At the End of the Passage (MOP)
The Mutiny of the Mavericks (MOP)
The Mark of the Beast
The Return of Imray (MOP)
Namgay Doola (MOP)
The Lang Men o’ Larut
Bertran and Bimi (MOP)
Reingelder and the German Flag
The Wandering Jew
Through the Fire
The Finances of the Gods
The Amir’s Homily
Jews in Shushan
The Limitations of Pambé Serang
Little Tobrah
Moti Guj – Mutineer(MOP)
Bubbling Well Road
The City of Dreadful Night
Georgie Porgie
Naboth
The Dream of Duncan Parrenness

Many Inventions (1893)
The Disturber of Traffic
A Conference of the Powers (DS)
My Lord the Elephant
One View of the Question
The Finest Story in the World
His Private Honour
A Matter of Fact
The Lost Legion
In the Rukh
Brugglesmith
Love-o’-Women
The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot
Judson and the Empire
The Children of the Zodiac
(also see The Sussex Edition)

The Jungle Book (1894)
Mowgli’s Brothers
Kaa’s Hunting
Tiger! Tiger!
The White Seal
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Toomai of the Elephants
Her Majesty’s Servants
(also see The Sussex Edition)

The Second Jungle Book (1895)
How Fear Came
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat
Letting in the Jungle
The Undertakers
The King’s Ankus
Quiquern
Red Dog
The Spring Running

The Day’s Work (1898)
The Bridge-Builders
A Walking Delegate
The Ship that Found Herself
The Tomb of his Ancestors
The Devil and the Deep Sea
William the Conqueror I & II
.007
The Maltese Cat
Bread upon the Waters
An Error in the Fourth Dimension
My Sunday at Home
The Brushwood Boy

Stalky & Co. (1899)
In Ambush
Slaves of the Lamp – Part I
An Unsavoury Interlude
The Impressionists
The Moral Reformers
A Little Prep.
The Flag of their Country
The Last Term
Slaves of the Lamp, Part II

From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches (1899)

vol I Letters of Marque (1887) – 19 articles
From Sea to Sea (I to XXIV) (1889) – 24 articles

vol II From Sea to Sea (XXV to XXXVII) (1889) – 13 articles
The City of Dreadful Night (1888) – 8 articles
Among the Railway Folk – 3 articles
The Giridih Coal-fields – 3 articles
In an Opium Factory – 1 article
The Smith Administration (1887-88) – 18 tales

Just So Stories (1902)
How the Whale got his Throat
How the Camel got his Hump
How the Rhinoceros got his Skin
How the Leopard got his Spots
The Elephant’s Child
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
The Beginning of the Armadilloes
How the First Letter was Written
How the Alphabet was Made
The Crab that Played with the Sea
The Cat that Walked by Himself
The Butterfly that Stamped
(also see The Sussex Edition)
(also see The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book)

Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
The Captive
The Bonds of Discipline
A Sahib’s War
Their Lawful Occasions – Part I
Their Lawful Occasions – Part II
The Comprehension of Private Copper
Steam Tactics
Wireless
The Army of a Dream Part 1
The Army of a Dream Part Il
They
Mrs Bathurst
Below the Mill Dam

Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)
Weland’s Sword
Young Men at the Manor
The Knights of the Joyous Venture
Old Men at Pevensey
A Centurion of the Thirtieth
On the Great Wall
The Winged Hats
Hal o’ the Draft
Dymchurch Flit
The Treasure and the Law

Actions and Reactions (1909)
An Habitation Enforced
Garm – a Hostage
The Mother HIve
With the Night Mail
A Deal in Cotton
The Puzzler
Little Foxes
The House Surgeon


Abaft the Funnel (1909)
Erastasius of the Whanghoa
Her Little Responsibility
A Menagerie Aboar
A Smoke of Manila
The Red Lamp
The Shadow of his Hand
A Little More Beef
The History of a Fall
Griffiths the Safe Man
It!
A Fallen Idol
New Brooms
Tiglath Pileser
The Likes o’ Us
His Brother’s Keeper
Sleipner, Late Thurinda
A Supplementary Chapter
Chautauquaed
The Bow Flume Cable-car
In Partibus (verse)
Letters on Leave
The Adoration of the Mage
A Death in the Camp
A Really Good Time
On Exhibition
The Three Young Men
My Great and Only
The Betrayal of Confidences
The New Dispensation—I
The New Dispensation—II
The Last of the Stories

Rewards and Fairies (1910)
Cold Iron
Gloriana
The Wrong Thing
Marklake Witches
The Knife and the Naked Chalk
Brother Square-Toes
A Priest in Spite of Himself
The Conversion of St Wilfrid
A Doctor of Medicine
Simple Simon
The Tree of Justice

France at War (1915)
France (verse)
On the Frontier of Civilization
A Nation’s Spirit
Battle Spectacle and a Review
The Land tnat Endures
Trenches on a Mountain Side
The Common Task

The New Army in Training (1915)
The Men at Work
Iron into Steel
Guns and Supply
Canadians in Camp
Indian Troops
Territorial Battalions

Sea Warfare (1916)
The Fringes of the Fleet (1915)
Tales of “The Trade” (1916)
Destroyers at Jutland (1916)

The War in the Mountains (1917)
The Roads of an Army
Podgora
A Pass, a King, and a Mountain
Only a Few Steps Higher Up
The Trentino Front

A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
As Easy as A.B.C.
Friendly Brook
In the Same Boat
The Honours of War
The Dog Hervey
The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
In the Presence
Regulus
The Edge of the Evening
The Horse Marines
My Son’s Wife
The Vortex
Swept and Garnished
Mary Postgate
(also see The Sussex Edition)

The Eyes of Asia (1917)
A Retired Gentleman
The Fumes of the Heart
The Private Account
A Trooper of Horse

Letters of Travel, 1892-1913 (1920)
From Tideway to Tideway (1892) – 9 articles
Letters to the Family (1907) – 8 articles
Egypt of the Magicians (1913) – 7 articles

Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1923)
Winning the Victoria Cross
The Way that he Took
An Unqualified Pilot
His Gift
A Flight of Fact
Stalky
The Burning of the Sarah Sands
The Parable of Boy Jones
The Bold ‘Prentice
The Son of His Father
An English School

Debits and Credits (1926)
The Enemies to Each Other
Sea Constables, a Tale of ’15
In the Interests of the Brethren
The United Idolaters
The Wish House
The Janeites
The Prophet and the Country
The Bull that Thought
A Madonna of the Trenches
The Propagation of Knowledge
A Friend of the Family
On the Gate
The Eye of Allah
The Gardener

A Book of Words (1928) 31 speeches from 1907-1927
7 later speeches from The Sussex Edition)
(also see A Second Book of Words 2008)

The Complete Stalky & Co. (1929)
Stalky (Land & Sea Tales)
In Ambush (Stalky & Co.)
Slaves of the Lamp – Part I (Stalky & Co.)
An Unsavoury Interlude (Stalky & Co.)
The Impressionists (Stalky & Co.)
The Moral Reformers (Stalky & Co.)
The United Idolaters (Debits & Credits)
Regulus (A Diversity of Creatures)
A Little Prep. (Stalky & Co.)
The Flag of their Country (Stalky & Co.)
The Propagation of Knowledge (Debits & Credits)
The Satisfaction of a Gentleman
The Last Term (Stalky & Co.)
Slaves of the Lamp, Part II (Stalky & Co.)

(also see Scylla and Charybdis Mar 2004)

Thy Servant a Dog told by Boots (1930)
Thy Servant a Dog
The Great Play Hunt
Toby Dog

Limits and Renewals (1932)
Dayspring Mishandled
The Woman in His Life
The Tie
The Church that was at Antioch
Aunt Ellen
Fairy-Kist
A Naval Mutiny
The Debt
The Manner of Men
Unprofessional
Beauty Spots
The Miracle of Saint Jubanus
The Tender Achilles
Uncovenanted Mercies

Souvenirs of France (1933)
Article I and Article II  

Collected Dog Stories (1934)
Private Learoyd’s story (Soldiers Three)
Garm, a Hostage (Actions & Reactions)
Quiquern (The Second Jungle Book)
The Dog Hervey (A Diversity of Creatures)
The Woman in his Life (Limits & Renewals)
Thy Servant a Dog (Thy Servant a Dog)
The Great Play Hunt (Thy Servant a Dog)
Toby Dog (Thy Servant a Dog)
A Sea Dog

The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book (1935)
Ham and the Porcupine

Thy Servant a Dog and Other Dog Stories (1938)
Thy Servant a Dog (Thy Servant a Dog)
The Great Play Hunt (Thy Servant a Dog)
Toby Dog (Thy Servant a Dog)
A Sea Dog (Collected Dog Stories)
Teem – a Treasure-Hunter

The Sussex Edition (1937-1940) (previously uncollected works that are now published as part of this edition)

Vol I (Plain Tales from the Hills) Bitters Neat
Haunted Subalterns

Vol III (Wee Willie Winkie) The Pit That They Digged
Of Those Called
The Track of a Lie
The Wreck of the Visigoth

Vol V (Many Inventions) The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P.
Mrs Hauksbee Sits Out

Vol IX (A Diversity of Creatures) A Tour of Inspection

Vol XII (The Jungle Books) Author’s Note on names

Vol XVI (Just So Stories) The Tabu Tale

Vol XXV (Book of Words) Six later speeches (nos XXXII – XXXVII)

Vol XXIX (uncollected) The Battle of Rupert Square
For One Night Only
On Dry Cow Fishing as a Fine Art
The Last Relief
The Lamentable Comedy of Willow Wood

Vol XXX (uncollected) The Potted Princess (1893)
Collar-Wallah and the Poison Stick (1893)
The Legs of Sister Ursula (1893)
My First Book (1894) – article
How Shakespeare came to write “The Tempest” (1898) – article
With Number Three (1900)
Surgical and Medical (1900)
Folly Bridge (1900)
The Outsider (1900)
A Burgher of the Free State (1900)
Railway Reform in Great Britain (1901)
The Science of Rebellion (1901) – article
A Village Rifle Club (1901)
Quo Fata Vocant (1902)
The Benefactors (1912)
A Reinforcement (1912)
The Soul of a Battalion (1915) – speech
A Displaie of New Heraldrie (1917) – article
The First Assault upon The Sorbonne (1921)
Mary Kingsley (1932) – article
The Pleasure Cruise (1933)
Proofs of Holy Writ (1934)
Two Forewords, Outward Bound Edn Vol.I (1897 & 1935)

Brazilian Sketches
The Journey Out
Rio
The Father of Lightnings
A Snake Farm
San Paulo and a Coffee Estate
Railways and a Two-Thousand Feet Climb
A World Apart

UNCOLLECTED
The Burden of Nineveh (1888)
The Sin of Witchcraft (1900) – article
The Harbour Watch (1913)