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Loved it. Picked it back up because Twain mentioned in the 2nd volume of the Autobiography that he reads it every year.It's easy to see why-Kim could be Huck's Indian cousin. ( ) Belongs to Publisher SeriesCorticelli [Mursia] (23) — 26 more Fischer Bücherei (223) Gallimard, Folio (559-4206) Gyldendals Tranebøger (197) Libri pocket [Longanesi] (335) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2012-10) Is contained inJungle Book / 2nd Jungle Book / Just So Stories / Puck of Pook's Hill / Stalky and Co. / Kim by Rudyard Kipling Has the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptationInspiredHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideNotable Lists
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." No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.8Literature English English fiction Victorian period 1837-1900LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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