Empire & Its Discontents

The literature of imperial ambition and its costs — Kipling at the height of empire, Conrad at its dark heart, and the writers who saw through it.

The age of empire, from inside and out

In this collection

• The Fight in the Lion's Thicket
• The Parting of the Columns
• Winning the Victoria Cross
• A Song of Kabir
• The Grisly Folk
• The Burial
• The other Man
• A Little more Beef
• Hal o' the Draft
• The Broken Men
• William the Conqueror, Part I
• The Irish Guards
• If --
• Cells
• The Inheritors
• The Janeites
• A British-Roman Song
• Stalky
• Bill 'Awkins
• Young Men at the Manor
• L'Envoi
• An Anarchist
• The Tents of Kedar
• The Undertaker's Horse
• The Wage-Slaves
• Soldier an' Sailor Too
• The Winged Hats
• England's Answer
• The Married Man
• The Stolen Body
• The Difficulties of the Peacemakers
• Tropical Africa
• He Swallows Gold
• Ballad on the American War
• The White Czar
• The Peasant of the Danube
• Four Years in Upper Burma

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