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Star rating for The man who would be king, and other stories
Lexile measure:
1100L
Language:
English
Description:
According to Wikipedia: ""The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a novella by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo; and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who was granted the title Prince of Ghor in perpetuity for himself...
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Star rating for Indian Tales
Language:
English
Description:
"Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave," —W.E. Henley. His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and he lived in the north of London, coming into the City every day to work in a bank. He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations. I met him in a public billiard-saloon where the marker called him by his given name,...
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Star rating for The phantom 'rickshaw, and other tales
Pub. Date:
[date of publication not identified]
Language:
English
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Star rating for A Kipling pageant
Pub. Date:
1935
Language:
English
Description:
Anthology of short stories, poems, and chapters of novels.