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Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads (Authorized Edition, Volume 6)

Rudyard Kipling

Old volume of poems and songs (ditties and ballads), some amusing, some a little bawdy (tame by today's standards) and a little naughty, some of fine-edged political and bureaucratic sarcasm, some lovely, some touching in their capture of the human essence and spirit. Hardcover cloth-on-board bindin...

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This was Kipling's first proper book, published in 1886, and it was a huge hit in India, selling out its initial print run immediately and becoming standard railway reading for the Anglo-Indian community.

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Now after this, he produces his first proper book in 1886 called Departmental Ditties. Not a title, perhaps, that would sell today, but it actually is a huge hit, isn't it?

— Episode: 313. Rudyard Kipling: Escaping India & W...

Episode: 313. Rudyard Kipling: Escaping India & Writing The...

This was Kipling's first proper book, published in 1886, and it was a huge hit in India, selling out its initial print run immediately and becoming standard railway reading for the Anglo-Indian community.

"

Now after this, he produces his first proper book in 1886 called Departmental Ditties. Not a title, perhaps, that would sell today, but it actually is a huge hit, isn't it?

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