THE RETURN OF IMRAY by RUDYARD KIPLING
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In British Colonial India our narrator finds himself in a small station staying in a large bungalow with an agent called Strickland and his large dog. Prior to our narrator's arrival another man whose name was Imray had suddenly disappeared while staying at that bungalow, and soon our narrator finds the bungalow is haunted at night.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and Tales. This is your host, John Hagenorn. Today, |
| 0:36.8 | a story called The Return of Imray by Rudyard Kipling. I'll give you a little background |
| 0:42.3 | on Kipling. Kippling, and I'll give you little background on Kippling. |
| 0:44.0 | Kippling was an English short story writer, poet, and novelist. |
| 0:48.4 | He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay in the Bombay |
| 0:55.2 | presidency of British India and was taken by his family to England when he was five |
| 0:59.2 | years old. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English |
| 1:07.2 | language writer to receive that prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Among other honors, he was sounded out for the British poet-loriadship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. |
| 1:20.0 | Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and |
| 1:24.9 | social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him |
| 1:29.1 | continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a prophet of British imperialism. |
| 1:36.2 | Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote, |
| 1:38.9 | Kipling is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement |
| 1:42.4 | and his place in literary and cultural |
| 1:44.3 | history is far from settled but as the age of the European empires recedes he |
| 1:49.8 | is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. |
| 1:57.0 | That and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts make him a force to be reckoned with. |
| 2:05.2 | How very true I enjoy Kipling's work very much. |
| 2:09.1 | Some call him racist. |
| 2:10.7 | I think the description that he was an interpreter of the empire is very true and we have to look at the history not through the light of today |
| 2:19.4 | But through the light of what was happening then. |
| 2:24.8 | And now the return of Imray by Rudyard Kipling. |
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