MARY POSTGATE by RUDYARD KIPLING

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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"Mary Postgate" by Rudyard Kipling: In England, during World War I, a caregiver named Mary Postgate takes revenge upon a downed German pilot who had just strafed and killed a young girl in her village. #Kipling #RudyardKipling #ShortStory #MaryPostgate Check out our new 1001 Classics E Book Collection at Amazon Kindle and leave us a review! Thanks May 2018 https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Short-Stories-Fireside-Collection-ebook/dp/B07CRW2RZ9/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1525854517&sr=8-4&keywords=kindle+books+1001+classic+short+stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.0	Search zero with an ex because healthy business is beautiful business. The The Welcome to another episode from one thousand one classic short stories and
0:59.0	tales. This one titled Mary Postgate is from one of my favorite authors Rudyard Kipling. this one
1:03.3	titled Mary Postgate is from one of my favorite authors
1:04.3	Rudyard Kipling and if you recall you'll find one of his famous works
1:07.8	Ricky tiki tavi in our archives.
1:10.3	Roger Kipling lived an extraordinary life being born in Bombay, India in 1895.
1:15.8	He was returned to England by his parents at the age of five to live in a boarding house,
1:20.4	where he was badly treated, and when he came of age attended a military
1:24.6	school and then returned to India becoming a prolific and well-known writer finally
1:29.6	winning a Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.
1:33.0	He was to sell his collection of short stories for a large sum of money
1:37.0	and traveled the world meeting Mark Twain in America,
1:40.0	where he lived for four years, then taking in Japan before returning to England.
1:45.0	This story, Mary Postgate, has been called Kipling's best war story,
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