City of Dreadful Night and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

City of Dreadful Night and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Synopsis

The City of Dreadful Night paints a gritty, dark picture of a hot summer night within a walled city in the Orient. The narrator steps over sleeping people which mimic corpsesand vividly depicts what he sees, feels, and hears in this death-like city. Also included in this collection are The Giridih Coal-Fields and Among the Railway Folk, reports from a trip Kipling made to the East India Railway Companys coal fields and headquarters.