The Man Who Would Be King Selected Stories Of Rudyard Kipling

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141966548
Total Pages : 963 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly realized world of the 'Indian' stories that made his name, through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly-wrought subtleties of his later pieces. Including the tale of insanity and empire, 'The Man Who Would Be King', the high-spirited 'The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat', the fable of childhood cruelty and revenge 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep', the menacing psychological study 'Mary Postgate' and the ambiguous portrayal of grief and mourning in 'The Gardener', here are stories of criminals, ghosts, femmes fatales, madness and murder.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486112705
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features five of the author's best early stories: title selection plus "The Phantom Rickshaw," "Wee Willie Winkie," "Without Benefit of Clergy" and "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes."

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387315376
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Rudyard Kipling and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1776671457
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Rudyard Kipling and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by literary luminary Henry James, this extraordinary early tale from Rudyard Kipling offers incisive insight into the dangers of imperialism. A pair of bumbling British adventurers make their way to a remote region of Afghanistan and, through a series of coincidences and misunderstandings, ascend to the throne as co-ruling kings.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466803797
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Ben Macintyre and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Riveting Account of the American Who Inspired Kipling's Classic Tale and the John Huston Movie In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan. He declared himself Prince of Ghor, Lord of the Hazarahs, spiritual and military heir to Alexander the Great. The true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first American ever to enter Afghanistan, has never been told before, yet the life and writings of this extraordinary man echo down the centuries, as America finds itself embroiled once more in the land he first explored and described 180 years ago. Soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist, traveler, and writer, Josiah Harlan wanted to be a king, with all the imperialist hubris of his times. In an extraordinary twenty-year journey around Central Asia, he was variously employed as surgeon to the Maharaja of Punjab, revolutionary agent for the exiled Afghan king, and then commander in chief of the Afghan armies. In 1838, he set off in the footsteps of Alexander the Great across the Hindu Kush and forged his own kingdom, only to be ejected from Afghanistan a few months later by the invading British. Using a trove of newly discovered documents and Harlan's own unpublished journals, Ben Macintyre's The Man Who Would Be King tells the astonishing true story of the man who would be the first and last American king.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198723431
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories and Poems written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hear and attend and listen...' Rudyard Kipling is a supreme master of the short story in English and a poet of brilliant gifts. His energy and inventiveness poured themselves into every kind of tale, from the bleakest of fables to the richest of comedies, and he illuminated every aspect of human behaviour, of which he was a fascinated (and sometimes appalled) observer. This generous selection of stories and poems, first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series, covers the full range of Kipling's career from the youthful volumes that brought him fame as the chronicler of British India, to the bittersweet fruits of age and bereavement in the aftermath of the First World War. It includes stories such as 'The Man who would be King', 'Mrs Bathurst', and 'Mary Postgate', and poems from Barrack-Room Ballads and other collections. In his introduction and notes Daniel Karlin addresses the controversial political engagement of Kipling's art, and the sources of its imaginative power. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Rudyard RUDYARD KIPLING
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Rudyard RUDYARD KIPLING and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RUDYARD KIPLING

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would be King (Annotated) written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Would be King (1888) is a short story Rudyard Kipling chronicling the adventures of two British men who become kings in Kafiristan (now a province of Afghanistan).

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1994-10-18 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a selection of Kipling's short stories.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448155746
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jungle Books written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jungle Books tell the story of the irrepressible Mowgli, who is rescued as a baby from the jaws of the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Raised by wolves and guided by Baloo the bear, Mowgli and his animal friends embark on a series of hair-raising adventures through the jungles of India.