Kim (Alma Junior Classics)

Kipling, Rudyard

ISBN 10: 1847498043 / ISBN 13: 9781847498045

Published by Alma Classics (edition ), 2020

About this Item

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 1847498043-11-18

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kim (Alma Junior Classics)
• Publisher: Alma Classics (edition )
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847498043
• ISBN 13: 9781847498045
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Beck, Ian
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama, and he decides to accompany him on his travels across the Indian Subcontinent. After falling into the hands of his father's old regiment, however, Kim is separated from the lama and sent away to school. There, his natural flair for espionage is spotted, and he soon finds himself among the majestic peaks of the Himalayas, playing a crucial part in the secret service's confrontation with
Russia known as the “Great Game”.

With its peerless evocation of the teeming cities, breathtaking landscapes and diverse cultures of late-nineteenth-century India, Kim is widely considered to be Kipling's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels written in the English language.

About the Authors

Rudyard Kipling was the author of The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, and Kim.

Ian Beck is well known as an illustrator as well as more recently a writer of young fiction with the publication of the very succesful Tom Trueheart titles by OUP. This is his first foray in to the world of teen fiction. Ian lives in West London. He began his career as an illustrator working on album covers including the still in-print classic cover for Elton John's album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.