Today, Rudyard Kipling is a bit controversial. Should you love him or deplore his apparently politically incorrect views of British imperialism? Well, I can't imagine ever not loving The Jungle Books - I can't recall how many times I read them as a child. Kipling (born in India in 1865) based a great deal of his writing - including many of the stories below - on his experiences in India. His tales are an example of why it's often inadvisable to attempt to judge a writer of more than 100 years ago by today's standards of "correctness!"

The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier (95 pages) (Century Magazine, 1892)

The Lost Legion (The Strand, 1892A)

A Walking Delegate (Century Magazine, 1895A)

The Brushwood Boy (Century Magazine, 1896A)

William the Conqueror (Ladies Home Journal, 1896)

The Elephant's Child (Windsor Magazine, 1902A)

The Comprehension of Private Copper (The Strand, 1902B)

Steam Tactics (Windsor Magazine, 1903A)

Puck of Pook's Hill (118 pages) (The Strand, 1906)