The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1987
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- Title
- The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0192816748
- ISBN 13
- 9780192816740
- Item weight
- 0.408 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
Arranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kipling's time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short stories explore the themes of isolation and abandonment and the effects of the Indian caste system on society. Along with the title piece, the volume includes "Gemini," "A Wayside Comedy," "The Hill of Illusion," "Only a Subaltern," "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," "Black Jack," and others.
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Review
--"Time Out London"
"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read."
--Ron Rosenbaum, "The New York Observer"
Sean Barrett's reading goes beyond narration into performance in The Man Who Would Be King, a novella in Conradian vein. He begins gently enough as the Indian civil servant who recounts his first meeting with Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot, 'gentlemen at large', who are planning to carve out a kingdom for themselves in a remote corner of Afghanistan. Barrett then creates the colourful personalities of the conniving Peachey and the bombastic, red-bearded Daniel before they disappear up country. Four years later Peachey reappears, a 'rag-wrapped, whining cripple', and tells the story of their meteoric rise and even faster fall. Kipling's storytelling and Barrett's reading is so immediate that you feel he's actually in the fanatically idolatrous mountain kingdom, living the perils of the protagonists. Other macabre stories in the collection include The Phantom Rickshaw, The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes and The Mark of the Beast. --- Christina Hardyment, The Times
"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read."
Ron Rosenbaum, "The New York Observer"
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" ---The Wall Street Journal
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