THE ATHENAEUMThe Man Who Would Be KingRudyard Kipling
Adventure
The Man Who Would Be King
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textTwo former soldiers and chancers, Dravot and Carnehan, set out from India to make themselves kings of Kafiristan, and very nearly succeed. Kipling frames it as a tale told to a newspaperman on a hot night. It is an adventure, a joke and a judgement on empire all at once.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About an hour
- Where to find it
- The Evening Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #8147. In the public domain in the United States.