Rudyard Kipling 
The Day’s Work 

Rudyard Kipling collected the short stories he had published in various magazines in the mid-1890s into ‘The Day’s Work’, published in 1898.

In ‘The Day’s Work’, Kipling uses a series of short stories to examine labour and employment in a variety of different industries, be it shipping, transport or bridge building. The result is a masterly collection of writings dealing with such eternal themes as family dependency, obedience to command, and loyalty against all the odds.



Some of the stories include: ‘
A Walking Delegate, ‘ ‘
The Bridge-Builders, ‘ ‘
The Tomb of His Ancestors, ‘ and ‘
William the Conquerer, ‘ among others.