2010-02-01

poliphilo has been rereading Kipling and posting brief reviews of some of the short stories in Life's Handicap as he does. I thought I'd follow along but my set of Kipling doesn't include a Life's Handicap collection, although most of its stories are included in the first four volumes.

The other night I dug out Life's Handicap from the box holding my second-best Kipling collection, which was more or less complete as of the date of publication (1917). As

poliphilo noted, there are differences between the English and U.S. versions of several books and I suspect that some of the stories in his version may be missing from mine.

Anyhow...by the time I decided to join the party I was several storied behind him, but I was able to join in the conversations for several of them from memory. Rather than add my commentary here, thus spreading a conversation across two LJs, I'll simply say that his current crop of Kipling posts begins here: http://poliphilo.livejournal.com/706109.html