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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 Friend’s Friend
A Second-rate Woman
A Supplementary Chapter
A Wayside Comedy
Baa Baa, Black Sheep
Beyond the Pale
Bitters Neat
By Word of Mouth
Chatauquaed
Consequences
Cupid’s Arrows
Dymchurch Flit
False Dawn
For One Night Only
Georgie Porgie
Gloriana
In Error
In the Pride of His Youth
Kidnapped
Letting in the Jungle
Lispeth
Marklake Witches
Mary Postgate
Mrs Hauksbee Sits Out
Mrs. Bathurst
My Son’s Wife
On Greenhow Hill
On the Strength of a Likeness
Poor Dear Mamma
Private Learoyd’s Story
Simple Simon
Swept and Garnished
The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case
The Children of the Zodiac
The Courting of Dinah Shadd
The Daughter of the Regiment
The Dog Hervey
The Gardener
The House Surgeon
The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
The Last of the Stories
The Legs of Sister Ursula
The New Dispensation—I
The New Dispensation—II
The Other Man
The Phantom Rickshaw
The Prophet and the Country
The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot
The Rescue of Pluffles
The Solid Muldoon
The Wish House
They
Three and—an Extra
Through the Fire
Venus Annodomini
Watches of the Night
William the Conqueror – part I
William the Conqueror – part II
Without Benefit of Clergy
Wressley of the Foreign Office
Yoked with an Unbeliever
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