Departmental ditties and Ballads and Barrack-room bal…

Name: Departmental ditties and Ballads and Barrack-room ballads
Author: Rudyard Kipling

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CEFR level: C2
Length: 53 chapters
Format: The complete book

About this book

Explore the ironies and intrigues of colonial life through sharp, satirical verse that reveals the timeless struggles of ambition, favoritism, and bureaucracy within the British Empire’s far-flung departments and barracks.

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