The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King

by Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King

by Rudyard Kipling

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Overview

"The Man Who Would Be King" is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was first published in The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781612190792
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication date: 06/14/2011
Series: Art of the Novella Series
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 783,504
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling was born in India to British parents in 1865. After a Dickensian childhood in an English boarding school, he returned to India and became a journalist. In the late 1880s his short fiction began appearing in inexpensive editions for rail travelers, and he soon became famous. In 1892 he married Caroline Balestier, moved briefly to the U.S., then returned to England after their daughter, Josephine, died of pneumonia. In the aftermath, Kipling wrote some of his best-known books and poems, including The Jungle Book, Kim, and Gunga Din, and in 1907 he became the first Englishman, and the youngest person ever, to win the Nobel Prize. After his only son, John, was killed in World War I, Kipling’s writing decreased, until he died in 1936.


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