by Rudyard Kipling · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853262098
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«The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories» is Rudyard Kipling's short story collection, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (224 pages, in English).
It brings together stories written in the 1880s, including «The Man Who Would Be King», about two British adventurers who try to found a kingdom in a remote region. Other stories, such as «The Phantom Rickshaw» and «Baa Baa, Black Sheep», combine irony, mystery and evocations of colonial India.
Volume in the Wordsworth Classics collection, complete edition with an introduction by Cedric Watts. The stories were written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was a journalist in India.
For readers of Victorian classics and adventure stories in British India.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
