Stories and prose in their collections

Main works

Other works

The collections	The stories

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

Soldiers Three, Indian Railway Library (Nov 1888) Soldiers Three and Other Stories (1890)	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) Soldiers Three and Other Stories (1890)	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) Soldiers Three and Other Stories (1890)	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

Under the Deodars, Indian Railway Library (Jan 1889) Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories (1890)	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) Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories (1890)	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 and Other Stories (1890)	Wee Willie Winkie Baa Baa, Black Sheep His Majesty the King The Drums of the Fore and Aft

Life’s Handicap (August 14th 1891) (DS) The Courting of Dinah Shadd (Sept 1890) (MOP) Mine own People (March 9th 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

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

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
	.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 (Vol I) (1899)	Letters of Marque (1887)
	From Sea to Sea (I to XXIV) (1889)

From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches (vol II) (1899)	From Sea to Sea (XXV to XXXVII) (1889)
	The City of Dreadful Night (1888)
	Among the Railway Folk
	The Giridih Coal-fields
	In an Opium Factory
	The Smith Administration (1887-88)

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
	The Tabu Tale (1903)
	Ham and the Porcupine (1935)

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 Aboard (“One Lady at Large” in the Sussex Edition)
	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

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)
	Letters to the Family (1907)
	Egypt of the Magicians (1913)

Land and Sea Tales	Winning the Victoria Cross
for Scouts and Guides (1923)	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)	(speeches 1907-1927)

Artists’ General Benevolent Institution, May 1907	“Literature”
Artists’ General Benevolent Institution, May 1907	“The Claims of Art”
McGill University, Montreal, October 1907	“Values in Life”
Canadian Club, Toronto, October 1907	“Imperial Relations”
Canadian Club, Winnipeg, October 1907	“Growth and Responsibility”
Royal Literary Fund, May 1908	“The Handicaps of Letters”
Middlesex Hospital, October 1908	“A Doctor’s Work”
A Naval Club, October 1908	“The Spirit of the Navy”
Brighton, November 1910	“The Ritual of Government”
Royal Geographical Society, May 1912	“The Verdict of Equals”
Wellington College, May 1912	“The Uses of Reading”
Royal Geographical Society, February 1914	“Some Aspects of Travel”
Winchester College, December 1915	“The War and the Schools”
Household Brigade O.C.C., Bushey, 1917	“The Magic Square”
East Coast Patrol, 1918	“The First Sailor”
Royal Society of St. George, April 1920	“England and the English”
Edinburgh University, July 1920	“The Scot and the War”
Sorbonne, Paris, November 1921	“The Virtue of France”
Banquet at the Sorbonne, November 921	“A Thesis”
Strasbourg University, November 1921	“A Return to Civilisation”
Banquet, Strasbourg University, November 1921	“The Trees and the Wall”
High Commissioner’s Lunch, Strasbourg, November 1921	“Waking From Dreams”
Royal College of Surgeons, February 1923	“Surgeons and the Soul”
Rectorial Address, St. Andrews, October 1923	“Independence”
University College, Dundee,October 1923	“The Classics and the Sciences”
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, June 1924	“Work in the Future”
U.K. Chamber of Shipping, February 1925	“Shipping”
Stationers’ Company, July 1925	“Stationery”
Royal Literary Society, June 1926	“Fiction”
Brazilian Academy of Letters, Rio, March 1927	“The Spirit of the Latin”
La Bassée, October 1927	“Our Indian Troops in France”
See also Some uncollected speeches edited by Thomas Pinney.


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

[unpublished until March 2004]	Scylla and Charybdis

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)	Articles I and II

Collected Dog Stories (1934)	Private Learoyd’s story
	Garm, a Hostage
	Quiquern
	The Dog Hervey
	The Woman in his Life
	Thy Servant a Dog
	The Great Play Hunt
	Toby Dog
	A Sea Dog

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

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

The Sussex Edition (1937-1940)	(previously uncollected works)

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 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)
	How Shakespeare came to write “The Tempest (1898)
	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)
	A Village Rifle Club (1901)
	Quo Fata Vocant (1902)
	The Benefactors (1912)
	A Reinforcement (1912)
	The Soul of a Battalion (1915)
	A Displaie of New Heraldrie (1917)
	The First Assault upon The Sorbonne (1921)
	Mary Kingsley (1932)
	The Pleasure Cruise (1933)
	Proofs of Holy Writ (1934)
	Two Forewords, Outward Bound Edn Vol.I (1897 & 1935)

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

UNCOLLECTED	The Burden of Nineveh (1888)
	The Biggest Liar in Asia (1887)
	The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories (newly published 2019)