The Man Who Would Be King

by Rudyard Kipling · first published 1888

"The Man Who Would Be King" is an 1888 short story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was first published in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales (1888); it also appeared in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1895) and numerous later editions of that collection. It has been adapted for other media a number of times.

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Genre:

Adventure fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.5 / 5 (6 on Open Library)

Year page:

1888