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Kim - Kipling, Rudyard, and Ni Fhlathuin, Maire (Editor)

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Kim tells the story of Kimball O'Hara, an orphaned Irish boy growing up in late nineteenth-century India, and his quest for identity as he strives to reconcile his Western inheritance with the Indian life he has always known. This edition sets the novel in the context of the historical period and addresses Kipling's ambivalent relationship with India, the Empire's treatment of the "other" classes and races who worked to maintain the British presence in India, and the place of Kim in Kipling's career as a writer. Appendices ...

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W T

Nov 8, 2012

Re reading

I reread this book after a 40 to 50 year gap. I did so because I had had reason to speak with someone about Kim's Game.

Having reread I went though it again to fix some of the episodes in my mind.

Kipling himself says it has no plot. But the threads of the Great Game and a buddist lama's search for the River of the Arrow run through it. John Le Carre almost matches it in the thriller aspect

It includes some remarkable characters, a Sunni Horse dealer, a 'fearful" babu who aspires to Fellowship of The Royal Society, a british Colonel, Kim's father ( not stated but in real life the keeper of the Wonder House in Lahore0and of course Kim himself who we first encounter in Lahore as white but the poorest of the poor.

Set in NW India in I suppose about 1900 shortly after the Battle of Tirah( q.v.)

coldwater

May 13, 2010

Kim, by Rudyard Kipling

This is written so well, it confronts us with a new world - and it is nearly one hundred year old already! I decided to read more Rudyard Kipling!

Alexa Fleckenstein M.D., physician, author.

KathrynJane

May 7, 2010

"Kim" is a gem!

In "Kim", Mr. Kipling has created a timeless imp of a character who steals your heart while both he and the reader gain wisdom of the world. The vivid portrait of India and it's people could only have been captured and rendered for the ages by the matchless Mr. Kipling. Each page of this volume is a delight, packed with wit, suspense, wisdom and the opulence and poverty of India. It's a "life book" - you'll carry it's wit and wisdom with you and always know your life is enriched for having read it.

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