The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories: Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Prose Fictions

This volume brings together for the first time some 86 uncollected short fictions.

Almost all of them will be unfamiliar to readers; some are unrecorded in any bibliography; some are here published for the first time.

Most of them come from Kipling's Indian years and show him experimenting with a great variety of forms and tones.

We see the young Kipling enjoying the exercise of his craft; yet the voice that emerges throughout is always unmistakably his own, changing the scene every time the curtain is raised.