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The Best Short Stories is a fascinating collection of some of the most famous short stories by Rudyard Kipling. These stories have been taken from four of his collections and is brought together in this volume. Summary of the Book The diverse stories selected for this volume portray the astonishing virtuosity of Kipling's early writings. Rudyard Kioling, a Nobel Prize-winner displays unparalleled literary mastery of idioms, technical terms, exotic locations and social range. In this rich collection, the readers will encounter everything from bold realism, poignant nostalgia to dark comedy. In the story Life’s Handicap, Kipling writes about his personal experiences of India. The stories in the book range from unexplained mystery and supernatural to the past lives and the slums of London in 1890. These stories very well prove that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. About Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, novelist and poet. He is also remembered as the author of Just So Stories and Kim. One of the most popular writers of his generation, Kipling was considered several times for Knighthood which he refused. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and he is its youngest recipient till date.