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Kim: Rudyard Kipling

  • Alan George Sandison

    Research output: Book/ReportBookEdited

    Abstract

    'Kim' (1901) is the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. With an old Tibetan lama he travels through India, enthralled by the 'roaring whirl' of the landscape and cities of richly coloured bazaars and immense diversity of people. The novel is a masterpiece of careful organization and skilfully manipulated narrative techniques. By portraying Kim's utter devotion to the lama and his ability to share the life of the common people intimately and unselfconsciously, Kipling creates a vision of harmony - and of India - that unites the secular and the spiritual, the life of action with that of contemplation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationNew York, United States of America
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Number of pages306
    Edition1
    ISBN (Print)0192835130
    Publication statusPublished - 1998

    Publication series

    NameOxford World's Classics

    Keywords

    • British and Irish Literature

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