![]() ![]() The man is a “Loafer,” a vagabond of sorts who makes a living out of different adventures, sometimes posing as a newspaper correspondent. The memory starts with the editor traveling on business and having a conversation with a stranger in the Intermediate train compartments. ![]() The story opens with the editor reflecting on all the sorts of people his line of work has brought him into contact with, but he is telling a very particular story of his happening to meet a man (or men) that would make himself into a king. The novella is narrated by an unnamed English newspaper editor living in India. Kipling’s reputation and scholarly discussions of his works have long shifted with the political climate, though largely his work has remained popular into the twenty-first century. ![]() Some of his most recognizable works are The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and The White Man’s Burden (1899). Kipling is best known for writing on the subject of British colonialism. The Man Who Would Be King is a novella written by Rudyard Kipling in 1888. ![]()
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