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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Kipling, Rudyard. "The Man Who Would Be King." Minerva Publishing, 2018. Original Publication Date: 1888. Print.

• This edition of Kipling’s story includes a photograph of the famous author wearing a three-piece suit and spectacles.

• An epigraph is included prior to the story’s beginning that states, “Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy” (2).

• The narrator remains unnamed throughout the story.

• When the story begins, the narrator describes having once come “near to kinship with what might have been a veritable King” and says that he had even been “promised the reversion of a Kingdom — army, law-courts, revenue and policy all complete” (3).

• He describes a marked change, however, when he says, “To-day, I greatly fear that my King is dead, and if I want a crown I must...

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