Kim

Name: Kim
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ISBN: 9780812971347

ISBN-10: 0812971345

ISBN-13: 9780812971347

Edition: 2004

Authors: Rudyard Kipling, Pankaj Mishra

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Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kipling’s native India,Kimis 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…

Book details

List price: $8.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/10/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.91" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Pankaj Mishra is currently editing an anthology of contemporary Indian writers. He divides his time between New Delhi & Simla.



Preface


The Text of Kim


Backgrounds


Map: North India 1857


Map: Modern India


Map: The Grand Trunk Road


Short Stories


Lispeth


To Be Filed for Reference


Poems


Recessional


The White Man's Burden


Letters


To Margaret Burne-Jones, [27] September 1885


To Margaret Burne-Jones, 28 November 1885-11 January 1886


To E. K. Robinson, 30 April 1886


To Margaret Burne-Jones, 3 May-24 June 1886


Autobiography and Biography


From Something of Myself



[The Origins of Kim]



Contemporary Reviews


[A 'New Kipling']



[Mr. Kipling's Enthralling New Novel]



Rudyard Kipling's Kim



The Nobel Prize for Literature, 1907


Historical Context


Kim in Historical Context



[Recovering the Connection Between Kim and Contemporary History]



Criticism


Kipling's Place in the History of Ideas



The Pleasures of Kim



[Kim as Imperialist Novel]



[The Survey of India]



Kim, Invasion-Scare Literature, and the Russian Threat to British India



[Kipling's Richest Dream]



[Storytelling in Kim]



[Kim, the Myth of the Nation, and National Identity]



[Kim's Colonial Education]



Kim and Orientalism



Kim, or How to Be Young, Male, and British in Kipling's India



[The Ending of Kim]



What Happens at the End of Kim?



Rudyard Kipling: A Chronology


Selected Bibliography