{"product_id":"9781612190792","title":"The Man Who Would Be King","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"My gord, Carnehan,\" says Daniel, \"This is a tremenjus business, and we've got the whole country as far as it's worth having.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterature’s most famous  adventure story, this stirring tale of two happy-go-lucky British ne’re-do-wells  trying to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Afghanistan has  also proved over time to be a work of penetrating and lasting political insight—amidst  its raucous humor and swashbuckling bravado is a devastatingly astute dissection  of imperialism and its heroic pretensions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Written when he was only 22 years old,  the tale also features some of Rudyard Kipling’s most crystalline prose, and one  of the most beautifully rendered, spectacularly exotic settings he ever used. Best  of all, it features two of his most unforgettable characters, the ultra-vivid Cockneys  Peachy Carnahan and Daniel Dravot, who impart to the story its ultimate, astonishing  twist: it is both a tragedy and a triumph.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165004185840,"sku":"9781612190792","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612190792_p0.jpg?v=1763843156","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612190792","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}