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A bank clerk dreams a Greek galley's sea battle in exact detail, and a writer wants every word of it.
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インド物語の概要
要約：読むのに8 minかかります
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- 約11 h 20 min9 h fast, 13 h 30 min slow
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- 162,100語
- ライブラリ内の難易度
- 読み応えがあります long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- 初版刊行年
- 1890by ラドヤード・キップリング
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インド物語 in short
Indian Tales is a collection of short stories set in British India in the late nineteenth century. The stories move from the barracks to the hill stations, from the mines to the old city, and from the nursery to the mountains beyond the frontier. A few characters return, above all Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd.
What インド物語 is about
What would you think of a bank clerk, twenty years old, who describes a Greek galley battle down to the way the sea stands still along the rail, when he has seen the ocean only once, at Brighton? Charlie Mears opens Indian Tales, and his strange memories set the mood for the book. Ordinary people brush against things they cannot explain, and the reader decides how much to believe.
Rudyard Kipling wrote these stories as a young newspaperman in India. They cover barracks and bazaars, hill stations and coal mines, nurseries and haunted rest houses. You get Private Mulvaney, Private Ortheris and Private Learoyd, a colonel's small son, two drifters who would be kings, and an old rebel on a city wall. Start with Charlie Mears and the story he cannot write.
対象読者. If you enjoy short stories with strong voices, soldiers' talk, ghost tales and glimpses of British India, this book gives you all of them, with jokes and sorrow on the same page.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A bank clerk remembers a ship he never sailed
The collection opens with The Finest Story in the World. Charlie Mears is twenty, lives in north London with his widowed mother, and works in a bank. He writes bad poetry and dreams of an immortal name. One evening he brings the narrator an idea for a story about a galley slave.
The narrator buys the idea, and then Charlie keeps talking. He describes the oars, the chained rowers, the overseer with his whip and the rotten figs the men eat. He has read nothing on galleys, and he has seen the sea once. A Greek expert at the British Museum reads his sheet of scratches as very bad Greek, a complaint of weariness. Now the narrator understands that Charlie is remembering a life he lived long ago.
Charlie would rather read Longfellow, and a verse of a Viking saga wakes a vivid dream of his own drowning. A young Bengali law student, Grish Chunder, shrugs and says such memories fade. Some knowledge sleeps in people who cannot use it, and a writer must catch it before it goes.
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Three soldiers talk their way through trouble
With the Main Guard takes place on a stifling June night at Fort Amara.
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Small children carry big tests of courage
Wee Willie Winkie is the six-year-old son of the colonel of the 195th.
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Ghosts in rest houses and on hill roads
The Rout of the White Hussars begins with a cavalry regiment that believes it cannot run.
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Pits, floods and the people who survive them
At Twenty-Two follows Janki Meah, a blind old weaver who has become a miner.
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City lanes where nothing is as it seems
On the City Wall is told from the window of Lalun, a beautiful woman who entertains guests in a little white room above the lanes of an old city.
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Two loafers set out to become kings
In The Man Who Would Be King, the narrator is a newspaperman who meets a vagabond on a train.
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What the rulers of India do not know
A thread runs through the book.
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Loyalty, love and the cost of both
Loyalty, more than empire, is the real subject in many of the tales.
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Voices, frames and the storyteller in the room
Kipling rarely tells a tale straight.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Terence Mulvaney An Irish private and veteran talker who can charm or fight his way out of anything and watches over his two friends.
- Stanley Ortheris A small, sharp-tongued Cockney private and fine marksman who misses London and quarrels loudly with his friends.
- John Learoyd A huge, slow Yorkshire private who fights well and tells of a girl he once loved on Greenhow Hill.
- Charlie Mears A young London bank clerk with poor poems and a strange memory of life on a Greek galley.
- Wee Willie Winkie The colonel's six-year-old son, who gives people nicknames and breaks the rules to protect a lady.
- Daniel Dravot A red-bearded drifter who plans to become king of Kafiristan, a mountain country in Afghanistan.
- Peachey Carnehan Dravot's smaller partner, loyal and practical, who tells the story of their adventure.
- Lalun A beautiful woman in an old city who entertains friends in a white room above the lanes.
How it ends (spoiler)
The collection ends with Private Ortheris in the grip of a fit of longing for London. He wants to leave the army, and Mulvaney tries to hold him back while the narrator makes a plan. The three friends stay together in the end, and the mood passes. The book closes not on a battle but on loyalty, with the three soldiers still bound to one another.
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『インド物語』についての質問
What is Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling about?
It is a collection of short stories set in British India. They follow soldiers in barracks, officials, children, ghosts, miners, drifters and city dwellers, and show how Englishmen and Indians misunderstand and surprise one another.
Who are Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd?
They are three private soldiers and close friends. Mulvaney is an Irish talker, Ortheris a small Cockney marksman and Learoyd a big Yorkshireman. They appear in many tales, often telling stories to the narrator.
What is The Man Who Would Be King about?
Two English drifters, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, sign a contract to make themselves kings of Kafiristan, a remote mountain land. A newspaperman meets them before and after their attempt and tells their story.
Are these stories real or made up?
They are fiction from Kipling's early career, drawing on his experience as a journalist in India. Some details of army life, places and customs come from real life, and some tales involve ghosts and magic.
Is Indian Tales easy to read?
The stories are short and each stands alone, so you can start with any of them. Many are told in lively spoken voices, with jokes, strong characters and plots that move quickly, and several are read aloud well.
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Kipling, Rudyard. Indian Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/indian-tales.
Kipling, R. (2026). Indian tales. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/indian-tales (Original work published 1890)
Kipling, Rudyard. Indian Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/indian-tales.
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title = {Indian Tales},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
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note = {First published 1890}
}
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