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Themes in Kipling's works

The lists below enable you to search for works that express a particular theme, are set in a particular place, refer to particular people or animals, or include other specific references.

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61 works found:

Tales

A Doctor of Medicine
A Fallen Idol
A Little More Beef
A Matter of Fact
A Menagerie Aboard
A Naval Mutiny
A Sea Dog
A Walking Delegate
An Unsavoury Interlude
Beauty Spots
Below the Mill Dam
Bertran and Bimi
Erastasius of the Whanghoa
Garm—a Hostage
Ham and the Porcupine
Her Majesty’s Servants
His Brother’s Keeper
How Fear Came
How the Whale got his Throat
In the Rukh
Kaa’s Hunting
Letting in the Jungle
Moti Guj—Mutineer
Mowgli’s Brothers
Namgay Doola
On Dry Cow Fishing as a Fine Art
Quiquern
Red Dog
Reingelder and the German Flag
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Sleipner, late Thurinda
Stalky
Steam Tactics
Teem — a Treasure Hunter
The Battle of Rupert Square
The Broken-Link Handicap
The Bull that Thought
The Children of the Zodiac
The Conversion of St. Wilfrid
The Great Play Hunt
The King’s Ankus
The Knights of the Joyous Venture
The Lamentable Comedy of Willow Wood
The Maltese Cat
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat
The Potted Princess
The Red Lamp
The Return of Imray
The Spring Running
The Tabu Tale
The Tomb of His Ancestors
The Undertakers
The United Idolaters
The White Seal
The Woman in his Life
Thy Servant a Dog
Tiger! Tiger!
Tiglath Pileser
Toby Dog
Toomai of the Elephants
Wee Willie Winkie
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