Title: The Day's Work
Title Record # 39136
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Date: 1898-00-00
Type: COLLECTION
Webpages: catalog.hathitrust.org, kiplingsociety.co.uk, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Date: 1898-00-00
Type: COLLECTION
Webpages: catalog.hathitrust.org, kiplingsociety.co.uk, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note:
- 12 stories, all previously published in UK or US magazines, Christmas 1893 to December 1897. They "were written very largely in Vermont, between 1893 and 1896." --Kipling Society
- 13 story titles including "William the Conqueror—Part I." and "—Part II." (non-genre)
Synopsis: "Four of them are anthropomorphic", according to the Kipling Society. Coverage of all 12 single stories in its Reader's Guide (and Wikipedia articles on the first two of these) show that those must be:
• "The Ship That Found Herself", featuring the parts of a ship
• ".007", featuring locomotives (originally ".007: The Story of an American Locomotive")
• "The Maltese Cat", featuring a polo pony in the championship match
• "The Walking Delegate", featuring labor organization by an outside agitator among farm horses
In "The Bridge-Builders", Chief Engineer Findlayson has a vision of gods that may personify the Ganges River.
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Day's Work | 1898-09-00 | Rudyard Kipling | Macmillan and Co. | 6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
381 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
The Day's Work | 2001-03-01 | Rudyard Kipling | Project Gutenberg | 2569 | $0.00?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll |