They (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- First Published: 1904
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: An Elizabethan house in the Sussex Downs, England
- Principal Characters: An unnamed narrator, An unnamed blind woman
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Children, Blindness or blind persons, Ghosts or apparitions, Bereavement or grief, Life and death
- Locales: Sussex, England
The Story
When driving through the Sussex countryside in early summer, the narrator, who appears to be an English gentleman of adequate means and impeccable manners, loses his way. In order to regain his bearings, he stops at an impressive mansion, where he sees two children at an upstairs window and hears a child's laughter coming from somewhere in the garden, two events that are of far greater significance than he can possibly realize. A woman approaches him from the garden, and he realizes that she is blind. In the ensuing discussion, it becomes clear that the narrator is...
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