Stories

In a collection of Kipling's later work. "A Sahib's war", "The captive" and "Mrs Bathurst" examine the mystery of private and public self with colloquial concision, while "The mother hive" and "As easy as ABC" use parables and utopian fantasy to express present and future anxieties. Here are repeated attempts to capture the essence of England with tradition and continuity encountering progress and change in "Below the mill dam". In "An habitation enforced" an American couple in England are bewildered and fascinated by a country that seems to be part of themselves.