Paperback, 224 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1998 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
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The Man Who Would be King' is the story of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan. Only one of the men returns, and his condition is so bad that the newspaperman-narrator barely recognizes him.This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. The stories include: 'The Phantom Rickshaw, ' 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep, ' 'At the Pit's Mouth, ' 'A Wayside Comedy, ' 'Gemini, ' 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, ' 'At Twenty-Two, ' and 'With the Main Guard.'
Subjects
- 19th century fiction
- Short stories
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Fiction
- Literature: Classics
- General
- Literature & Fiction
- Classics
- Short Stories (single author)