Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Unabridged) (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 576 Min.
Sprecher: Barrett, Sean

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Produktbeschreibung

In a remote part of 19th-century Afghanistan, two British adventurers pursue their ambition to rule an empire. Using betrayal, threats and guns they win the respect of a primitive tribe and become worshipped as gods, until one day they draw blood and the game is up. The Man Who Would Be King is an action-packed tale about the pitfalls of colonialism and the temptations and evils of power. This volume also includes the stories The Phantom Rickshaw, The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The Mark of the Beast and many more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Naxos Audiobooks
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 576 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781843799122
• Artikelnr.: 44326573

Autorenporträt

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899) and "If-" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.

Inhaltsangabe

Includes: The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Phantom Rickshaw
The Hill of Illusion
Dray Wara Yow Dee
With the Main Guard
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
At the Pit's Mouth
On the City Wall