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119 works found:

Tales

A Bank Fraud
A Death in the Camp
A Fallen Idol
A Friend’s Friend
A Germ-Destroyer
A Really Good Time
A Second-rate Woman
A Supplementary Chapter
A Wayside Comedy
An Unqualified Pilot
At Howli Thana
At the End of the Passage
At the Pit’s Mouth
At Twenty-Two
Baa Baa, Black Sheep
Beyond the Pale
Bitters Neat
Black Jack
Bubbling Well Road
By Word of Mouth
Consequences
Cupid’s Arrows
False Dawn
Fatima
Georgie Porgie
Haunted Subalterns
Her Majesty’s Servants
His Brother’s Keeper
His Chance in Life
His Majesty the King
In Error
In the Matter of a Private
In the Pride of His Youth
Kidnapped
Letters on Leave
Lispeth
Miss Youghal’s Sais
Moti Guj—Mutineer
Mrs Hauksbee Sits Out
My First Book
My Own True Ghost Story
Naboth
Namgay Doola
New Brooms
On the City Wall
On the Strength of a Likeness
Only a Subaltern
Pig
Poor Dear Mamma
Private Learoyd’s Story
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Sleipner, late Thurinda
The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
The Big Drunk Draf
The Bisara of Pooree
The Bold ’Prentice
The Bridge-Builders
The Broken-Link Handicap
The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case
The Brushwood Boy
The City of Dreadful Night
The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
The Courting of Dinah Shadd
The Daughter of the Regiment
The Debt
The Dream of Duncan Parrenness
The Drums of the Fore and Aft
The Education of Otis Yeere
The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P.
The Garden of Eden
The God from the Machine
The Head of the District
The Hill of Illusion
The History of a Fall
The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
The Judgement of Dungara
The Last of the Stories
The Last Relief
The Likes o’ Us
The Madness of Private Ortheris
The Man who Was
The Man Who Would Be King
The Mark of the Beast
The Mutiny of the Mavericks
The New Dispensation—I
The Other Man
The Phantom Rickshaw
The Potted Princess
The Rescue of Pluffles
The Return of Imray
The Sending of Dana Da
The Solid Muldoon
The Son of his Father
The Story of Muhammad Din
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Swelling of Jordan
The Taking of Lungtungpen
The Tents of Kedar
The Three Musketeers
The Tomb of His Ancestors
The Undertakers
The Valley of the Shadow
The World Without
Three and—an Extra
Thrown Away
Tiglath Pileser
To be Filed for Reference
Tods’ Amendment
Toomai of the Elephants
Venus Annodomini
Watches of the Night
Wee Willie Winkie
William the Conqueror – part I
William the Conqueror – part II
With Any Amazement
With the Main Guard
Without Benefit of Clergy
Wressley of the Foreign Office
Yoked with an Unbeliever