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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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50 works found:

Tales

A Doctor of Medicine
A Friend’s Friend
A Priest in Spite of Himself
A Tour of Inspection
At the End of the Passage
Beauty Spots
Fairy-Kist
Ham and the Porcupine
Her Little Responsibility
His Gift
How Shakespeare came to write The Tempest
In Ambush
In Error
It!
Judson and the Empire
Love-o’-Women
Moti Guj—Mutineer
Mrs. Bathurst
My Great and Only
My Sunday at Home
On Exhibition
Proofs of Holy Writ
Sea Constables
Surgical and Medical
Teem — a Treasure Hunter
The Adoration of the Mage
The Battle of Rupert Square
The Betrayal of Confidences
The Bow Flume Cable-Car
The Bull that Thought
The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
The Likes o’ Us
The Limitations of Pambé Serang
The Manner of Men
The Mark of the Beast
The Mutiny of the Mavericks
The New Dispensation—II
The Potted Princess
The Prophet and the Country
The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Tabu Tale
The Three Young Men
The Tie
The Woman in his Life
Their Lawful Occasions – part I
Their Lawful Occasions – part II
To be Filed for Reference
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