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

A selection of ten short stories by Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling, in a paperback edition.

This collection brings together ten short stories by Rudyard Kipling, the first British author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907. The Man Who Would Be King , one of the short stories in this work, is an entertaining story of two adventurers in 19th-century India who decide to look for a place in the world where they could reign.

The short story The Man Who Would Be King was adapted for the cinema in the film of the same name directed by John Huston, with Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer in the cast.

Rudyard Kipling also wrote The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book , and several poems and short stories.