The Man Who Would Be King

Series description Read, listen, practice! An English-Hungarian bilingual literary language teaching series for learning and maintaining a level. In our series you can read the classic stories of the greats of English and American literature in their original language, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Mark Twain to Virginia Woolfig and F. Scott Fitzgerald - accompanied by the Hungarian translation! The new, modern translation helps to enjoy literature and follow the original work accurately at the same time. The explanatory notes to the English text will help you to accurately understand vocabulary, grammatical structures, or even cultural connotations. You can also download the stories in the form of an audiobook after the publication of each volume! With the code in the volumes, you can copy the audio material after a simple registration, and at the same time you will receive the English text of the book in E-book form. Content Description for Volume 7 of the Series: The Man Who Wanted to Be King - Like almost all of Kipling’s works - takes place in India. Her narrator is a journalist who first meets a strange English tramp and then shows up with the man’s friend and lets her know that they want to be rulers of Afghanistan’s remote region, Kafiristan. The narrator meets them again the next day, setting off in a strange masquerade with a caravan. Three years later, a crippled, tormented beggar appears in his editorial office and recounts the vicissitudes he went through with his friend, the self-appointed king of Kafiristan. The two Englishmen, Freemasons like the narrator and Kipling himself, organize society as a lodge, declaring themselves grandmasters, and believing with the ruled people that they are deities. The "king" is increasingly overwhelmed by the whim of magnification, and when he decides to marry a local girl and start a dynasty, an avalanche of tragic events begins. The "king" is killed, his companion crucified, but he survives so he can get to the journalist to tell the story of their begging kingdom. The dramatic narrative depicts with dark irony the desire for power of Freemasonry and the tyrannical nature of British colonial rule.