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Step into the vibrant world of Kim, Rudyard Kipling's iconic novel. Set against the backdrop of colonial India, this captivating tale follows the adventures of an orphaned boy named Kim as he navigates the complexities of identity, loyalty, and espionage. With a stunning... Read Full Overview

A nice edition with all 12 original illustrations.

Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. Kim is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living... Read Full Overview

Kimball O'Hara is the son of an Irish soldier, living in poverty in India. When both of his parents die, he earns a living begging, running errands and working for a horse trader, who also works for the British secret service. He becomes a disciple of a Tibetan Lama, who is on... Read Full Overview

Reared in the teeming streets of India at the turn of the century, the orphan Kim is the 'Friend of the all the World', a cheeky imp with an endless interest in the extraordinary characters he meets daily. One of them, an old Tibetan lama, sets him on the path that will lead... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The text--that of the 1901 Sussex Edition--is fully annotated and accompanied by three maps that help students place the novel in geographical and historical contexts.

"Backgrounds" explores the novel's complicated issues of multiculturalism, imperialism, and racism,... Read Full Overview

Kim, one of Kipling's masterpieces, is the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an officer in the Irish Regiment who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. The book is a carefully organized, powerful evocation of place and of a young man's quest for identity.