Project Gutenberg 2004-08-02 Public domain in the USA. 702 Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 Kipling, R. (Rudyard) Kipling, Joseph Rudyard A Diversity of Creatures As Easy as ABC -- MacDonough's Song -- Friendly Brook -- The Land -- In the Same Boat -- 'Helen all Alone' -- The Honours of War -- The Children -- The Dog Hervey -- The Comforters -- The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat -- The Press -- In the Presence -- Jobson's Amen -- Regulus -- A Translation -- The Edge of the Evening -- Rebirth -- The Horse Marines -- The Legend of Mirth -- 'My Son's Wife' -- The Floods -- The Fabulists -- The Vortex -- The Song of Seven Cities -- 'Swept and Garnished' -- Mary Postgate -- The Beginnings. E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo, Charlie Kirschner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "A Diversity of Creatures" by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of short stories penned in the early 20th century. This anthology showcases Kipling's trademark narrative style, blending humor, philosophy, and social commentary to explore the human condition and the peculiarities of life on Earth through various vignettes highlighting the interaction between people and their environments. At the start of the work, the reader is introduced to a futuristic setting in the year 2065, where a governing body known as the Aërial Board of Control oversees planetary operations. The opening story, "As Easy as ABC," focuses on a situation where the District of Northern Illinois has disconnected itself from the planetary network, raising concerns about invasion of privacy. The Board quickly assembles a team to investigate, leading to a comical and chaotic interaction with the local populace, which reveals their fierce independence and resistance to interference. This sets the stage for a narrative that engages with themes of governance, individual freedom, and the consequences of societal structures. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 83.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en English poetry Short stories, English PR Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: British Literature 664124 2025-08-06T03:50:31.775077 text/html 632842 2024-10-28T20:03:47 text/html 342686 2025-08-06T03:50:42.867061 application/epub+zip 351828 2025-08-06T03:50:34.996040 application/epub+zip 340044 2025-08-06T03:50:33.609091 application/epub+zip 615733 2025-08-06T03:50:48.424041 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 617842 2025-08-06T03:50:41.966043 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 573980 2022-09-07T00:08:44.162480 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 621264 2025-08-06T03:50:29.856078 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 601426 2024-10-28T20:03:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17182 2025-08-06T03:50:48.558003 application/rdf+xml 14160 2025-08-06T03:50:34.150062 image/jpeg 3766 2025-08-06T03:50:33.881060 image/jpeg 336292 2025-08-06T03:50:31.827056 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia