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One of the most beautiful tales of friendship I have ever read, Kim is often described as Kipling’s love letter to India. At its centre is Kim, a young white boy, an orphan, and his friend and mentor the Tibetan Lama who takes Kim from the streets of Lahore to be educated at a public school in England and on to adventures.
Set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white. The book is a celebration of their friendship in a beautiful but often hostile environment and Kim captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj. This book is just unforgettable.
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"e;Kim"e; is a novel by English author Rudyard Kipling, originally published as a serial in McClure's Magazine between December 1900 and October 1901. The story revolves around the young Kim and aged priest Lama who together venture off on a mutual quest, although for very different reasons. Though now a controversial novel, "e;Kim"e; is considered Kipling's greatest literary accomplishment and offers poignant insights into the religious, social, and political issues of the time.
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"e;Kim"e; is a novel by English author Rudyard Kipling, originally published as a serial in McClure's Magazine between December 1900 and October 1901. The story revolves around the young Kim and aged priest Lama who together venture off on a mutual quest, although for very different reasons. Though now a controversial novel, "e;Kim"e; is considered Kipling's greatest literary accomplishment and offers poignant insights into the religious, social, and political issues of the time.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer most famous for his stories set in and related to colonial India. He innovated the art of short story writing and was one of the most popular writers in the U.K. during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other notable works by this author include:
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- The White Man's Burden"e
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- The Man Who Would Be King"e
- (1888). Read & Co. Classics is republishing this classic story now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author
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The great adventure of identity, intrigue and India, and several other things too, including the extraordinary potency of words - Guardian
I don't just admire, I adore Kim -- Mark Tully
I'm a passionate fan of Kipling. I think Kim is a singular and extraordinary novel, one of the greatest in English -- A. A. Gill
The greatest of all Kipling's books -- E. M. Forster
No summary can do this marvellous, rich and unforgettable novel anything like justice -- Philip Pullman -
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Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Among Kipling's best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems Mandalay and Gunga Din. Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1907) and was among the youngest to have received the award.
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