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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)

by Rudyard Kipling (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd; New Ed edition (1 Jul 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1853262099
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853262098
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,375 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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With an Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master. The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster. The other tales include the ironic, horrific, poignant and haunting. Here Kipling displays his descriptive panache and realistic boldness. Shrewd, audacious, abrasive and challenging, he remains absorbingly readable. COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
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5.0 out of 5 stars magic, 30 Jan 2006
By Royale "Mies" (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This is the work of a maestro....a true genius of literature. I recently read Kim by Kipling and, having always thought it to be a children's book, was delighted at the sheer quality of writing, its narrative drive, its incredible characters and colour and sense of time and place. The Man Who Would Be King, though occasionally not equalled in some of the other short stories sitting alongside it, is a classic. Anyone who recalls the film version with Michael Caine and Sean Connery, will not be disappointed.
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3.0 out of 5 stars I guess you had to be there, 11 May 2003
By Joseph Haschka (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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As a reluctant student in that oxymoronic high school class, Poetry Appreciation for Teenage Males, I was surprised to rather enjoy the verses of Rudyard Kipling. Now, decades later, I thought I'd investigate his prose — these 13 tales in RUDYARD KIPLING: THE BEST SHORT STORIES written during the period 1889 -1904.

Kipling had an affinity for the common British soldier and civil servant standing duty on the far edges of Empire. Thus, several chapters feature such of the Queen's own, usually soldiers relating cautionary stories regarding relationships with women. This is assuredly fertile ground for a bivouac chin wag, even today.

The author's writing style includes the occasional trick of animating animals and inanimate objects with a human voice and personality. Sometimes this worked for me, sometimes not. The former was best exemplified by "The Ship That Found Herself", a clever instruction about the structural parts of a steamship. Less entertaining was "The Maltese Cat", a dialogue among polo ponies during a big match. Perhaps if I'd understood the game better, or cared, it might have gone over more successfully.

On a scale of one star to five, I awarded no single story more than four. The least appreciated effort was "The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot", a depressing narrative set in the London slums that illustrates the adage, "No good deed goes unpunished." Of the several fours, my favorite was "They", a poignant ghost story set in England's southern Downs that would've made, with a little tweaking, a good episode for the old TWILIGHT ZONE television series. However, even the former contained an astute observation worth noting here:

"... if people did not die so untidily, most men, and all women, would commit at least one murder in their lives.'

While Kipling is undeniably a great storyteller, I suspect that his writings had a greater appeal to readers contemporary with the author than those in the current millenium. Perhaps time has passed them by. One had to be there, especially to appreciate both Britain's paternal yet condescending attitude towards the subject denizens of its colonial possessions and once-new technologies that are today considered quaintly antiquated.

I'm glad I took the time to read this book, but am also happy to be finished and moving on to the next.

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1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars From the back cover of this book....., 16 Sep 2006
This anthology of Rudyard Kipling's greatest short stories contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he was an undisputed master. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING is a classic tale of adventure as the opportunistic, renegade and vagabond pair of Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan attempt to establish themselves at the level of god and king over the primitive people of Kafiristan.

Other famous short stories included are: ONLY A SUBALTERN, THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW, WEE WILLIE WINKLE, and BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP.

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