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Paperback, 432pp, 1988

PENGUIN CLASSICS

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY HUGH HAUGHTON

Kipling's early stories can be read 'both as journalistic reports from the British Raj and as grotesque fables of mastery and imagination', as Hugh Haughton argues in his Introduction.

A product of the young Kipling's astonishingly productive last year in India, this collection is an Anglo-Indian triptych whose three contrasting sets of stories explore different areas of experience and, in particular, different crises of social identity undergone by the British in India. Under the Deodars is a tragicomic album of vignettes of English women in Simla and elsewhere, dramatizing their frustrated ambitions and sweet-and-sour liaisons in the Hills. Wee Willie Winkie sketches a picture of the splendours and miseries of Anglo-Indian boyhood and mixes fantasy with broadly asserted reality. In between comes The Phantom Rickshaw, a fantastic exercise in Imperial Gothic that includes 'The Man Who Would be King', the acknowledged masterpiece of Kipling's Indian period.

The cover shows a detail from 'The Drums of the Fore and Aft' by E. Matthew Hale in the Leeds City Art Gallery