EPISODE · Sep 15, 2020 · 1H 29M
The Man Who Would Be King -- Rudyard Kipling
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Would Be King Author: Rudyard Kipling Narrator: Philippa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: '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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Would Be King Author: Rudyard Kipling Narrator: Philippa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: '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.
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