| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
10 audio discs (approximately 11 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical 1.4 m/s stereo rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Note |
Title from disc surface. |
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Compact disc. |
| Performer |
Read by Fred Williams. |
| Note |
"Digitally remastered in 2012"--Container. |
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"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container. |
| Summary |
This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888 when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian poor. The title story "The man who would be king", is the story of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan. From Mrs. Hauksbee's Simla drawing room to Mulvaney's cot in the barracks and to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by turns ironic and sentimental, compassionate and bitter. |
| Contents |
The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes -- The phantom rickshaw -- Gemini -- A wayside comedy -- At twenty-two -- The education of Otis Yeere -- The hill of illusion -- Dray wara yow dee -- The judgment of Dungara -- With the main guard -- In flood time -- Only a subaltern -- Baa, baa, black sheep -- At the pit's mouth -- Black Jack -- On the city wall -- The man who would be king. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
British -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
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Kings and rulers -- Fiction.
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Afghanistan -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Williams, Fred. Narrator.
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Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781455166053 |
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1455166057 |
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9781455166060 |
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1455166065 |
| Music No. |
Z1745 Blackstone Audio |
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