<p>The Man Who Would Be King (1888) is a novella by Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling (1865?1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He is chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children.<br><br>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...