Rudyard Kipling 
Under the Deodars (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This 1895 collection brings together the stories of three previous collections.  Some of Kipling’s greatest and most famous stories are here, including ’The Man Who Would Be King, ’ the autobiographical ’Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, ’ and of course the title stories, ’The Phantom Rickshaw’ and ’Wee Willie Winkie.’

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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a past master of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”