Authors: Rudyard Kipling, Louis L. Cornell
ISBN-13: 9780199536474, ISBN-10: 0199536473
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: August 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His sweeping tales of adventure, including "Kim, Captains Courageous, " and "The jungle Book", won him wide popularity during his lifetime and have been beloved by generations.
Rebecca Burns is editor-in-chief of Atlanta Magazine, which has won numerous regional and national awards under her direction.
'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.'Audiobook read by Fred Williams.
General Preface | ||
Introduction | ||
Note on the Text | ||
Select Bibliography | ||
A Chronology of Kipling's Life and Works | ||
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes | 3 | |
The Phantom 'Rickshaw | 26 | |
Gemini | 49 | |
A Wayside Comedy | 58 | |
At Twenty-Two | 70 | |
The Education of Otis Yeere | 81 | |
The Hill of Illusion | 103 | |
Dray Wara Yow Dee | 113 | |
The Judgment of Dungara | 122 | |
With the Main Guard | 131 | |
In Flood Time | 146 | |
Only a Subaltern | 155 | |
Baa Baa, Black Sheep | 170 | |
At the Pit's Mouth | 198 | |
Black Jack | 204 | |
On the City Wall | 221 | |
The Man who would be King | 244 | |
Explanatory Notes | 280 |