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the Man Who Would be King

ISBN-13: 9780976140702

Contributor(s): Rudyard Kipling

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Melville House Publishing

Publication Date: 05-03-2009

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£8.99

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About the book

Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognised by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. This stirring tale of two happy-go-lucky Brits 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 - amidst its raucous humor and swashbuckling bravado is a devastatingly astute dissection of imperialism and its heroic pretensions.

the Man Who Would be King

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