Kim: Introduction by John Bayley (Everyman's Library Classics Series) - Hardcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679443606 ISBN 13: 9780679443605

Publisher: Everyman's Library USA, 1995

Synopsis

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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Review:

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

Book Description:

Rudyard Kipling's classic novel of a young boy in colonial India

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library USA
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679443606
• ISBN 13: 9780679443605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360