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Themes in Kipling's works

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68 works found:

Tales

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A Centurion of the Thirtieth
A Friend of the Family
A Little More Beef
A Menagerie Aboard
A Priest in Spite of Himself
A Smoke of Manila
An Error in the Fourth Dimension
An Habitation Enforced
Bread upon the Waters
Brother Square-Toes
Brugglesmith
Captains Courageous
Dray Wara Yow Dee
Erastasius of the Whanghoa
Folly Bridge
Garm—a Hostage
Gloriana
Griffiths the Safe Man
Ham and the Porcupine
In the Same Boat
It!
Judson and the Empire
Kaa’s Hunting
Little Foxes
Moti Guj—Mutineer
My Lord the Elephant
My Sunday at Home
Of Those Called
On the Gate
Quiquern
Railway Reform in Great Britain
Steam Tactics
The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
The Big Drunk Draf
The Bow Flume Cable-Car
The Brushwood Boy
The City of Dreadful Night
The Devil and the Deep Sea
The Dog Hervey
The Eye of Allah
The Finest Story in the World
The Gardener
The Horse Marines
The House Surgeon
The King’s Ankus
The Knights of the Joyous Venture
The Light that Failed
The Limitations of Pambé Serang
The Man Who Would Be King
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat
The Naulahka
The Outsider
The Prophet and the Country
The Red Lamp
The Ship That Found Herself
The Spring Running
The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
The Vortex
The Wandering Jew
The White Seal
The Wreck of the Visigoth
They
Wee Willie Winkie
William the Conqueror – part I
William the Conqueror – part II
With Number Three
With the Night Mail
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