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Title: The Eyes of Asia

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23163]

Language: English

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Books by Rudyard Kipling

Actions and Reactions Light That Failed, The
Brushwood Boy, The Many Inventions
Captains Courageous Naulahka, The (With Wolcott
Collected Verse Balestier)
Day's Work, The Plain Tales from the Hills
Departmental Ditties and Puck of Pook's Hill
Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads Rewards and Fairies
Diversity of Creatures, A Sea Warfare
Eyes of Asia, The Seven Seas, The
Five Nations, The Soldier Stories
France at War Soldiers Three, The Story
From Sea to Sea of the Gadsbys, and In
History of England, A Black and White
Jungle Book, The Song of the English, A
Jungle Book, Second Songs From Books
Just So Song Book Stalky & Co.
Just So Stories They
Kim Traffics and Discoveries
Kipling Stories and Poems Under the Deodars, The
Every Child Should Know Phantom 'Rickshaw, and
Kipling Birthday Book, The Wee Willie Winkie
Life's Handicap: Being Stories With the Night Mail
of Mine Own People

THE EYES OF ASIA

By

RUDYARD KIPLING

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1918

Copyright, 1917, 1918, by
RUDYARD KIPLING

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