Description
The Day's Work (1898) is a collection of twelve stories from the 1890s, the most fruitful decade of Kipling's career.
Many of the stories work a rich vein that Kipling had made peculiarly his own since he had first started publishing: English life in India. These include his masterful 'The Bridge Builders', 'The Tomb of His Ancestors', and 'William the Conqueror'.
Others, such as 'The Brushwood Boy' and 'A Walking Delegate', draw on Kipling's experiences in England and America respectively, and on the contrasts he saw between the two countries.
The remaining stories return to some of Kipling's other classic subjects: children, animals, the sea, the excitement of games.
The Day's Work celebrates the work ethic which is fundamental to Kipling's philosophy of life, yet it begins and ends with stories which subject that philosophy to questioning, and give it deeper significance
