Synopsis of the book:
The Bridge Builders is the second installment of the collection of stories that Kipling grouped together under the title Every Day's Work, and constitutes an extraordinary narrative cycle due to the exhaustiveness and beauty of the language and the literary magnitude of the company, as Kipling he proposed to express his faith in the useful work that the men of the Empire were doing in their civilizing war against what was left outside of civilization, which for Kipling was "the void." Thus, The Builders of the Bridge describes the vicissitudes and the dedication of the British and natives to bridge the Ganges, although the ultimate decision about its destruction or permanence belongs to the gods. William the Conqueror tells of a woman of splendid character and her work in a famine-ravaged region of India. 007 is the story of a small locomotive on her first day at work, who feels scared of not being able to face the effort entrusted to her. Bread on Waters focuses on the almost heroic work of men at the hands of a Jewish-run shipping company that forces men and machines beyond the limit of what is tolerable. A traveling delegate is a fable about the world of horses, and tells how a rather lazy and bad-tempered horse tries to instill in his gentle equine companions a revolutionary union attitude of confrontation with man. Bread on the Waters focuses on the almost heroic work of men at the hands of a Jewish-run shipping company that forces men and machines beyond the limit of what is tolerable. A traveling delegate is a fable about the world of horses, and tells how a rather lazy and bad-tempered horse tries to instill in his gentle equine companions a revolutionary union attitude of confrontation with man. Bread on the Waters focuses on the almost heroic work of men at the hands of a Jewish-run shipping company that forces men and machines beyond the limit of what is tolerable. A traveling delegate is a fable about the world of horses, and tells how a rather lazy and bad-tempered horse tries to instill in his gentle equine companions a revolutionary union attitude of confrontation with man.

Biography:
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British writer and poet, author of great stories, children's stories, novels and poetry, such as The Jungle The Book (1894), the spy novel Kim (1901), the short story "The Man Who Would Be King" ("The Man Who Could Be King", 1888), many of which were made into a movie.
He rejected several awards at the time but in 1907 he accepted and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which made him the first British writer to receive this award, and the youngest Nobel Prize winner for Literature to date.