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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
By
Rudyard Kipling and
Fred Williams (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date
September 20, 2012
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781455166060
ISBN-10
1455166065
Dimensions
1.50 by 5.25 by 5.75 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Original list price
$32.95
Other format details
audio
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: [Read by Fred Williams]
This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when he 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. The title story, ''The Man Who Would Be King,'' tells of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan.
From Hauksbee's Simla drawing room to Mulvaney's barracks cot and 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.
The 17 Stories included here are:
*The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, *The Phantom Rickshaw, *Gemini, *A Wayside Comedy, *At Twenty-Two, *The Education of Otis Yeere, *The Hill of Illusion, *Dray Wara Yow Dee, *The Judgment of Dungara, *With the Main Guard, *In Flood Time, *Only a Subaltern, *Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, *At the Pit's Mouth, *Black Jack, *On the City Wall, and *The Man Who Would Be King.
[*The story ''The Man Who Would Be King'' was made into a feature film of the same name in 1975, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer]
This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when he 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. The title story, ''The Man Who Would Be King,'' tells of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan.
From Hauksbee's Simla drawing room to Mulvaney's barracks cot and 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.
The 17 Stories included here are:
*The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, *The Phantom Rickshaw, *Gemini, *A Wayside Comedy, *At Twenty-Two, *The Education of Otis Yeere, *The Hill of Illusion, *Dray Wara Yow Dee, *The Judgment of Dungara, *With the Main Guard, *In Flood Time, *Only a Subaltern, *Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, *At the Pit's Mouth, *Black Jack, *On the City Wall, and *The Man Who Would Be King.
[*The story ''The Man Who Would Be King'' was made into a feature film of the same name in 1975, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer]
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CD/Spoken Word
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With Rudyard Kipling |
Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (September 20, 2012)
9781455166060 | details & prices | 5.25 × 5.75 × 1.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $32.95
About: [Read by Fred Williams] This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when he was working as a journalist in India.
About: [Read by Fred Williams] This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when he was working as a journalist in India.
With Rudyard Kipling |
Mp3 una edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (September 20, 2012)
9781455166077 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $29.95
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