Rudyard Kipling

The Penguin English Library Edition of Kim by Rudyard Kipling'He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights ...'Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, Kim captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Complete and unabridged in Puffin Classics.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 lad 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 him to travel the Great Trunk Road, and become a spy for the British...

An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim is edited with an introduction by Harish Trivedi, and includes a general preface by Jan Montefiore.Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother, and the lama, an old ascetic priest, are on a quest. Kim was born and raised in India and plays with the slum children as he lives on the streets, but he is white, a sahib, and wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism; while the priest must find redemption from the Wheel of Things. Kim celebrates their friendship and their journeys in a beautiful but hostile environment, capturing the opulence of the exotic landscape and the uneasy presence of the British Raj. Filled with rich description and vivid characters, this beguiling coming of age story is considered to be Kipling's masterpiece. Part of a series of new editions of Kipling's works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a General Preface by Jan Montefiore and an introduction by Harish Trivedi placing the novel in its literary and social context.Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay. In 1882 he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907.If you enjoyed Kim, you might like E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, also available in Penguin Classics.'Kipling's last work is ... his best, and not easily comparable with the work of any other man'Atlantic

'No summary can do this marvellous, rich and unforgettable novel anything like justice' Philip PullmanKim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore.

Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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."

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, allowing readers to glimpse Kipling's personal thoughts about British expansionism. Included are two short stories, poems, and letters by Kipling, as well as autobiographical and biographical memoirs and contemporary reviews of Kim. "Criticism" collects fourteen wide-ranging assessments of the novel by Noel Annan, Irving Howe, Edward Said, Ian Baucom, A. Michael Matin, John A. McClure, Anne Parry, Michael Hollington, Parama Roy, Sara Suleri, Patrick Williams, Suvir Kaul, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, and Zohreh T. Sullivan. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.

Rudyard Kipling's Kim is the tale of an Irish orphan raised as an Indian vagabond on the rough streets of colonial Lahore. Young Kimball O'Hara's coming of age takes place in a world of high adventure, mystic quests, and secret games of espionage played out between the Russians and the British in the mountain passages of Asia. Kim is torn between his allegiance to the ascetic lama who becomes his beloved mentor and the temptations of those who want to recruit him as a spy in the "great game" of imperial conflict. In a series of thrilling escapades, he crisscrosses India on missions both spiritual and military before the two forces in his life converge in a dramatic climax in the high Himalayas. Published in 1901, after its author had permanently moved away from India, Kipling's masterpiece is marked by a maturity of perspective on the land of his birth, combined with breathtakingly brilliant descriptions of the fascinating lost world of the British Raj. Kim has enthralled generations of readers both by the exuberance of its storytelling and its vital and unforgettable portrait of the India of bazaars and sacred rivers, holy men and rogues, ancient customs and colonial society.

This boxset contains seven of most popular novels ever written for children (and many adults). They are beautifully packaged in a rigid, matt-laminated slipcase, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork - the perfect gift for any book-lover. The set includes: 9781853261183 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9781853261220 - The Wind in the Willows 9781853261039 - Treasure Island 9781853261091 - Black Beauty 9781853261190 - The Jungle Book 9781853261046 - The Secret Garden 9781853261206 - Peter Pan

Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901. The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel made the term "Great Game" popular and introduced the theme of great power rivalry and intrigue.

Min mest självständiga vän. Presentask med fyra noveller om katter, i översättning av Andreas Vesterlund. Fyra stora författare berättar om sina erfarenheter av denna människans mest självständiga vän. Fyra små böcker i en ask: 48, 48, 24 och 24 sidor, mjuka pärmar. Nobelpristagaren Doris Lessing rörde sig fritt mellan genrer: romaner, science fiction, feminism, självbiografier – allt. I denna novell berättar hon om sin älskade katt El Magnifico. ”När han var ung kunde jag vakna och se att han var vaken, och när han i sin tur såg att jag hade vaknat brukade han komma närmare, lägga sig på min axel, slå tassarna om min hals, lägga sin pälsklädda kind mot min och ge ifrån sig den djupa, nöjda suck som man hör från ett litet barn när det äntligen lyfts upp i en kärleksfull famn. Och jag hörde mig själv sucka till svar.” Lessing försöker inte förmänskliga El Magnifico utan vill se honom som det han är – en katt. Ändå finns det så mycket för en människa att känna igen. Respekten, integriteten, värdigheten, tålamodet, närvaron. ”Katten går genom rummet och i dessa ensamma steg ser man leoparden eller till och med pantern, eller så vänder den på huvudet för att betrakta en och ögonens gyllene glöd avslöjar vilken exotisk besökare man faktiskt har i denna hushållskamrat, katten som spinner när man klappar honom, kliar honom under hakan eller stryker hans huvud.” Nobelpristagaren Rudyard Kipling berättar om den allra första katten som bestämde sig för att bli vän med människan – på vissa villkor. Michael Joseph – författaren och bokförläggaren – hade en alldeles särskild blick för katter. Här är novellen ”Minna Minna Mowbray” om en av hans favoriter, en korthårig sköldpaddsfärgad tabby ”som var expert på att få som hon ville”. Charles Dudley Warner – författaren och humoristen – var nära vän till den ännu mer berömde humoristen Mark Twain (de skrev bland annat en roman ihop) berättar om sitt favorithusdjur, den tålmodige och fenomenalt intelligente katten Calvin. Min mest självständiga vän – Fyra noveller om katter. ISBN 978-91-7742-548-9. Översättning Andreas Vesterlund. Presentask med fyra böcker, mjuka pärmar, högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, 48, 48, 24, 24 sidor.