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Kim

By Rudyard Kipling
Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

By Rudyard Kipling
Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

By Rudyard Kipling
Introduction by John Bayley

By Rudyard Kipling
Introduction by John Bayley

By Rudyard Kipling
Translated by Pankaj Mishra

By Rudyard Kipling
Translated by Pankaj Mishra

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Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Paperback $8.00

Feb 10, 2004 | ISBN 9780812971347

Hardcover $22.00

Mar 21, 1995 | ISBN 9780679443605

Ebook $2.99

Feb 10, 2004 | ISBN 9781588363626

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    About Kim

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kipling’s native India, Kim is widely acknowledged as the author’s greatest novel and a key element in his winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the tale of an orphaned sahib and the burdensome fate that awaits him when he is unwittingly dragged into the Great Game of Imperialism. During his many adventures, he befriends a sage old Tibetan lama who transforms his life. As Pankaj Mishra asserts in his Introduction, “To read the novel now is to notice the melancholy wisdom that accompanies the native boy’s journey through a broad and open road to the narrow duties of the white man’s world: how the deeper Buddhist idea of the illusion of the self, of time and space, makes bearable for him the anguish of abandoning his childhood.”

    About Kim

    Rudyard Kipling’s Kim is the tale of an Irish orphan raised as an Indian vagabond on the rough streets of colonial Lahore. Young Kimball O’Hara’s coming of age takes place in a world of high adventure, mystic quests, and secret games of espionage played out between the Russians and the British in the mountain passages of Asia. Kim is torn between his allegiance to the ascetic lama who becomes his beloved mentor and the temptations of those who want to recruit him as a spy in the “great game” of imperial conflict. In a series of thrilling escapades, he crisscrosses India on missions both spiritual and military before the two forces in his life converge in a dramatic climax in the high Himalayas.

    Published in 1901, after its author had permanently moved away from India, Kipling’s masterpiece is marked by a maturity of perspective on the land of his birth, combined with breathtakingly brilliant descriptions of the fascinating lost world of the British Raj. Kim has enthralled generations of readers both by the exuberance of its storytelling and its vital and unforgettable portrait of the India of bazaars and sacred rivers, holy men and rogues, ancient customs and colonial society.

    About Kim

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    Rudyard Kipling’s Kim is the tale of an Irish orphan raised as an Indian vagabond on the rough streets of colonial Lahore. Young Kimball O’Hara’s coming of age takes place in a world of high adventure, mystic quests, and secret games of espionage played out between the Russians and the British in the mountain passages of Asia. Kim is torn between his allegiance to the ascetic lama who becomes his beloved mentor and the temptations of those who want to recruit him as a spy in the “great game” of imperial conflict. In a series of thrilling escapades, he crisscrosses India on missions both spiritual and military before the two forces in his life converge in a dramatic climax in the high Himalayas.

    Published in 1901, after its author had permanently moved away from India, Kipling’s masterpiece is marked by a maturity of perspective on the land of his birth, combined with breathtakingly brilliant descriptions of the fascinating lost world of the British Raj. Kim has enthralled generations of readers both by the exuberance of its storytelling and its vital and unforgettable portrait of the India of bazaars and sacred rivers, holy men and rogues, ancient customs and colonial society.

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    About Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, to British parents on December 30, 1865. In 1871 Rudyard and his sister, Trix, aged three, were left to be cared for by a couple in Southsea, England. Five years passed before he… More about Rudyard Kipling

    About Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, to British parents on December 30, 1865. In 1871 Rudyard and his sister, Trix, aged three, were left to be cared for by a couple in Southsea, England. Five years passed before he… More about Rudyard Kipling

    About Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, to British parents on December 30, 1865. In 1871 Rudyard and his sister, Trix, aged three, were left to be cared for by a couple in Southsea, England. Five years passed before he… More about Rudyard Kipling

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $8.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Feb 10, 2004 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812971347

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $22.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Mar 21, 1995 | 360 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780679443605

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Feb 10, 2004 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9781588363626

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