The Man Who Would Be King

Description for THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING by Rudyard Kipling:

This selection brings together the best of Rudyard Kipling's short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly realized world of the “Indian” stories that made his name, through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly-wrought subtleties of his later pieces. Included here is the tale of insanity and empire, “The Man Who Would Be King”; the fable of childhood cruelty and revenge “Baa Baa, Black Sheep”.