A newspaperman in India meets two ex-soldiers and confidence men, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, who sign a contract swearing off drink and women until they have made themselves kings. With rifles and a scheme borrowed from Freemasonry, they head over the passes into Kafiristan, where no Englishman has gone before.
Kipling’s novella of ambition and empire, later filmed by John Huston, is one of the finest adventure stories in English. Download the free EPUB.