![]() ![]() They have entered into a contract to become Kings of Kafiristan, a forbiddingly remote and at that time largely unexplored area in northeast Afghanistan-unexplored, that is, by European colonizing powers. He tells of meeting two adventurers, Peachey Taliaferro Carnehan and Daniel Dravot, who have decided to leave an India that “isn’t big enough for such as us” (161). ![]() He is an active character in the outer, frame narrative and a passive observer and transmitter of the inner story. The unnamed narrator is a correspondent for the Backwoodsman. The story is an example of a frame narrative it consists of two stories, nested one within the other. It appeared as the last of four stories collected in The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales. Written when Rudyard Kipling was in his early 20s, “The Man Who Would Be King” was first published in India in 1888. ![]() Analysis of Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be Kingīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 24, 2022 ![]()
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