Empire & Its Discontents: The age of empire, from inside and out

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.

In this collection

• The Run of the Downs
• With any Amazement
• The Beautiful Suit
• Stalky
• France at War
• Certain Maxims of Hafiz
• The Lost Legion
• An Outcast of the Islands
• The Finest Story in the World
• The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows
• Mary, Pity Women!
• The First Horseman
• Follow me 'Ome
• The 'Eathen
• Oonts
• The Brute
• To-Morrow
• Chatauquaed
• In the Modern Vein. an Unsympathetic Love Story
• Song of the Fifth River
• The Nurses
• The City of Brass
• A Short History of the World
• A Vision of Judgment
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