The Story of the Gadsby

By Kipling, Rudyard

Book Id: WPLBN0000662028
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 342.49 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Story of the Gadsby
Author:	Kipling, Rudyard
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Excerpt: Dear Mafflin,--You will remember that I wrote this story as an Awful Warning. None the less you have seen fit to disregard it and have followed Gadsby?s example--as I betted you would. I acknowledge that you paid the money at once, but you have prejudiced the mind of Mrs. Mafflin against myself, for though I am almost the only respectable friend of your bachelor days, she has been darwaza band to me throughout the season. Further, she caused you to invite me to dinner at the Club, where you called me ?a wild ass of the desert,?

Table of Contents
Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................................... 4 POOR DEAR MAMMA .................................................................................................................. 5 THE WORLD WITHOUT............................................................................................................. 16 THE TENTS OF KEDAR.............................................................................................................. 27 WITH ANY AMAZEMENT .......................................................................................................... 39 THE GARDEN OF EDEN ............................................................................................................ 50 FATIMA........................................................................................................................................... 61 THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW .............................................................................................. 75 THE SWELLING OF JORDAN................................................................................................... 85