The Man Who Would Be King

Name: The Man Who Would Be King
Brand: Saga Egmont International
SKU: 9788726553673
Price: 5.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-8-726-55367-3

de Rudyard Kipling (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Saga Egmont International

février 2021

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"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is inspired by the real-life actions of James Brook, a British soldier who made himself Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo). In this short story, Kipling tells of two crook characters, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, through a third character, an Indian journalist, who is acquainted with the men. Their plan is simple: they will leave India and go to Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan, and set themselves up as kings there by force. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an India-born British author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), which has inspired two Disney adaptations: the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film starring Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, and Lupita Nyong’o. In 1941, he became the first English-language writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Auteur

Rudyard Kipling (auteur)

(1865-1936). Né à Bombay, il publie ses premières nouvelles en 1887, suivies de six volumes. Sa prose est vive et pleine d'humour. Il est connu pour ses poèmes et romans se déroulant aux Indes, notamment Le Livre de la Jungle. Il est nommé Prix Nobel de Littérature en 1906.

Auteur(s) : Rudyard Kipling