Kim : Modern Library Classics - Rudyard Kipling

Kim

By: Rudyard Kipling, Pankaj Mishra

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Paperback | 10 February 2004 | Edition Number 1

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338 Pages

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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.”

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

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Preface	p. vii
The Text of Kim	p. 1
Backgrounds	p. 241
Map: North India 1857	p. 243
Map: Modern India	p. 244
Map: The Grand Trunk Road	p. 245
Short Stories
Lispeth	p. 247
To Be Filed for Reference	p. 252
Poems
Recessional	p. 259
The White Man's Burden	p. 260
Letters
To Margaret Burne-Jones, [27] September 1885	p. 263
To Margaret Burne-Jones, 28 November 1885-11 January 1886	p. 266
To E. K. Robinson, 30 April 1886	p. 270
To Margaret Burne-Jones, 3 May-24 June 1886	p. 271
Autobiography and Biography
From Something of Myself	p. 273
[The Origins of Kim]	p. 278
Contemporary Reviews
[A 'New Kipling']	p. 283
[Mr. Kipling's Enthralling New Novel]	p. 284
Rudyard Kipling's Kim	p. 285
The Nobel Prize for Literature, 1907	p. 290
Historical Context
Kim in Historical Context	p. 297
[Recovering the Connection Between Kim and Contemporary History]	p. 309
Criticism	p. 321
Kipling's Place in the History of Ideas	p. 323
The Pleasures of Kim	p. 328
[Kim as Imperialist Novel]	p. 337
[The Survey of India]	p. 351
Kim, Invasion-Scare Literature, and the Russian Threat to British India	p. 358
[Kipling's Richest Dream]	p. 375
[Storytelling in Kim]	p. 384
[Kim, the Myth of the Nation, and National Identity]	p. 393
[Kim's Colonial Education]	p. 406
Kim and Orientalism	p. 410
Kim, or How to Be Young, Male, and British in Kipling's India	p. 426
[The Ending of Kim]	p. 436
What Happens at the End of Kim?	p. 441
Rudyard Kipling: A Chronology	p. 453
Selected Bibliography	p. 457
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