Synopsis: My gord, Carnehan, says Daniel, This is a tremenjus business, and we've got the whole country as far as it's worth having.Literatureﾃ??s most famous adventure story, this stirring tale of two happy-go-lucky British neﾃ??re-do-wells trying to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Afghanistan has also proved over time to be a work of penetrating and lasting political insightﾃ??amidst its raucous humor and swashbuckling bravado is a devastatingly astute dissection of imperialism and its heroic pretensions. Written when he was only 22 years old, the tale also features some of Rudyard Kiplingﾃ??s most crystalline prose, and one of the most beautifully rendered, spectacularly exotic settings he ever used. Best of all, it features two of his most unforgettable characters, the ultra-vivid Cockneys Peachy Carnahan and Daniel Dravot, who impart to the story its ultimate, astonishing twist: it is both a tragedy and a triumph.The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
Title: The Man Who Would Be King
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Melville House
Year: 2005
Number of pages: 96
ISBN: 9780976140702
Condition: Used
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