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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

Literary Fiction

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About “The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories”

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories is a collection of seventeen stories by Rudyard Kipling, written between 1885 and 1888 during his time as a journalist in India. The central story, "The Man Who Would Be King," follows two British vagabonds who travel to Afghanistan to establish a kingdom among primitive tribesmen, with only one returning in a severely deteriorated condition.

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1982 · ISBN 9780199536474
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9780199536474

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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling has 300 pages.

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