Plain Tales From The Hills by Rudyard Kipling New York : Hurst Co., Publishers , not dated Early hardcover version from late 1800s to early 1900s. First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. His vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indian people themselves. Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, these tales with their brevity and concentration of effect are landmarks in the history of the short story as an art-form. Nothing else existed like it in its time. No Dust Jacket