Kim

Rudyard Kipling, Pankaj Mishra

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English

Modern Library
01 June 2004

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels

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.""

By: Rudyard Kipling
Introduction by: Pankaj Mishra
Imprint: Modern Library
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9780812971347
ISBN 10: 0812971345
Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 June 2004
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Kim

A work of positive genius, as radiant all over with intellectual light as the sky of a frosty night with stars. --The Atlantic Monthly A work of positive genius, as radiant all over with intellectual light as the sky of a frosty night with stars. The Atlantic Monthly A work of positive genius, as radiant all over with intellectual light as the sky of a frosty night with stars. -- The Atlantic Monthly