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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100812971345

ISBN-139780812971347

eBay Product ID (ePID)4479237

Product Key Features

Book TitleKim

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Literary, Coming of Age

Publication Year2004

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorRudyard Kipling

Book SeriesModern Library 100 Best Novels Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-044292

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

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal823/.8

SynopsisSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 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.", Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 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."

LC Classification NumberPR4854.K4 2004