The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes is a novella written by Rudyard Kipling in 1899. The story follows the journey of Morrowbie Jukes, a British engineer who finds himself stranded in the desert after his horse runs away. He wanders into a walled village where he is taken in by the inhabitants, who are outcasts from society due to their leprosy. Jukes soon discovers that the village is a place of lawlessness and chaos, where the lepers are left to...
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