The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

by Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

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Overview

'The Man who would be King', the tale of two vagabonds who attempt to establish a kingdom among primitive tribesmen, is both a classic of high adventure and a searching parable of Empire. This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian poor, revealing Kipling's legendary powers of observation and, in 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep' his own miserable childhood. From Mrs Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by turns ironic and sentimental, compassionate and bitter, displaying the brilliance that has captivated readers for over a century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781420962215
Publisher: Digireads.com
Publication date: 06/14/2019
Pages: 214
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.49(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Short-story writer, novelist, and poet Rudyard Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature and was hailed as a literary heir to Charles Dickens. His most popular works include Kim, Just So Stories, and The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories.

An acclaimed narrator, Rebecca Burns has recorded such titles as Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, and Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter.

Table of Contents

General Prefacevii
Introductionxiii
Note on the Textxxxviii
Select Bibliographyxl
A Chronology of Kipling's Life and Worksxliii
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes3
The Phantom 'Rickshaw26
Gemini49
A Wayside Comedy58
At Twenty-Two70
The Education of Otis Yeere81
The Hill of Illusion103
Dray Wara Yow Dee113
The Judgment of Dungara122
With the Main Guard131
In Flood Time146
Only a Subaltern155
Baa Baa, Black Sheep170
At the Pit's Mouth198
Black Jack204
On the City Wall221
The Man who would be King244
Explanatory Notes280
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