Debits and Credits is a collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling, a British writer who wrote extensively about British colonialism in India and Burma. In 1907, he became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The collection was first published in 1926 and includes bitter and bleak stories about subjects such as adultery, war, death, disease, and the passage of time as a harbinger of sorrow. Most of the stories in this collection are framed by poems.
Four of the poems that accompany the stories are whimsically presented as translations from the "Bk. V of Odes" by Horace but are actually poems by Kipling imitating the style of the Roman poet.
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"The Enemies to Each Other"The story of Adam and Eve retold in the style of a Muslim fable
"Sea Constables: a Tale of ’15"Weekend sailors turned naval officers discuss their patrolling of the coast over dinner
" 'In the Interests of the Brethren' "An account of the generous hospitality of a Masonic Lodge in wartime
"The United Idolaters"A tale of school life, in which Stalky & Co discover
Uncle Remus and outrage a new master
"The Wish House"An old
Sussex woman talks about the love of her life and the price she paid for loving him
"The Janeites"A still-bewildered old soldier recalls how he came to join a 'secret society' of
Jane Austen admirers and gives his own unique take on her oeuvre
"The Prophet and the Country"A stranded motorist meets an exiled American who explains his passionate objection to
Prohibition"The Bull that Thought"A story about an uncannily intelligent bull with a flair for the
bullfight"A Madonna of the Trenches"After the war, a soldier reveals the true cause of his "shell-shock"
"The Propagation of Knowledge"A tale of school life, in which Stalky & Co bait their English master with the
Curiosities of Literature and the Baconian theory
"A Friend of the Family"An Australian soldier avenges his friend by waging war on the home front
"On the Gate: a Tale of ’16"A fantasy in which St Peter and the administrators of Heaven struggle to cope with the surge of souls from the war
"The Eye of Allah"In a mediaeval abbey, an artist shows some doctors an early
microscope, which provokes debate
"The Gardener"A story about respectability and mother-love
The ChangelingsThe Vineyard‘Banquet Night’To the Companions (Horace, ode 17, Bk. v.)The Centaurs‘Late Came the God’RahereThe Survival (Horace, Ode 22 Bk. v.)Jane’s MarriageThe Portent (Horace, Ode 20, Bk, v.)Alnaschar and the OxenGipsy VansThe BirthrightA Legend of TruthWe and TheyThe SupportsUntimelyThe Last Ode: Nov. 27, B.C. 8 (Horace, Ode 31, Bk. v.)The BurdenGow’s Watch : Act IV. Sc. 4Gow’s Watch: Act V. Sc. 3"Banquet Night"Debits and CreditsDebits and Credits at Project Gutenberg Australia 
