Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kpling

ISBN 10: 8129119447 / ISBN 13: 9788129119445

Published by RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD, 2013

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 withRussia 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• Publisher: RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8129119447
• ISBN 13: 9788129119445
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 198W x 129H x 19D millimeters 198 millimeters width by 129 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 369 grams

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Synopsis

An action-packed adventure story and also an endearing coming-of-age tale, Kim is a classic that has captivated readers for over a century. Set in the teeming streets of colonial India, Kipling’ s novel tells the story of Kimball O’ Hara, a young Irish orphan whoeads a vagabond existence, growing up in the walled city ofahore. He befriends an old Tibetanama searching for the mythical River of the Arrow, and with him, sets out on an incredible journey along the Grand Trunk Road. En route, Kim is embroiled in a series of adventures that have him thieving, begging and trying his hand at disguises with an eccentric bunch of characters the enigmatic Sahiba of Saharanpur; the mysterious Bengali babu, Hurree Chunder Mookherjee, and the Pashtun horse-trader, Mahbub Ali and is recruited by the British Secret Service to train as a young spy in the Great Game of espionage between Russia and Britain.

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was born in Bombay, and completed his studies abroad before returning to India, where he wrote his celebrated work Plain Tales from the Hills. A novelist, poet and short-story writer, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, becoming the youngest person to have ever received this award. He also received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1926.