The adventures that Kim undergoes as a spy, his endearing relationship with the lama, and the skill and craftsmanship of Kipling's writing have all caused this adventurous and descriptiveif controversialnovel to persist as a minor classic of historical English literature. Colonel Creighton recognizes Kim's great talent for blending into the many diverse cultures of India and trains him to become a spy and a mapmaker for the British army. Kim eventually comes upon the army regiment that his father had belonged to and makes the acquaintance of the colonel. Kipling's account of Kim's travels throughout the subcontinent gave him opportunity to describe the many peoples and cultures that made up India, and a significant portion of the novel is devoted to such descriptions, which have been both lauded as magical and visionary and derided as stereotypical and imperialistic. When he meets a wandering Tibetan lama who is in search of a sacred river, Kim becomes his follower and proceeds on a journey covering the whole of India. Kim, an energetic and playful character, although full-blooded Irish, grows up as a "native" and acquires the ability to seamlessly blend into the many ethnic and religious groups of the Indian subcontinent. The title character is a boy of Irish descent who is orphaned and grows up independently in the streets of India, taken care of by a "half-caste" woman, a keeper of an opium den. The novel takes place at a time contemporary to the book's publication its setting is India under the British Empire. He was the author of many short stories and novels including The Jungle Book.Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of his era, and his novel Kim, first published in 1901, has become one of his most well-known non-juvenile works.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, India. So much more than just a spy story, Kim is one of the most enjoyable books that you will ever read - or have read to you. Taking time off from his role as the traveling companion of an aged Tibetan lama, the boy is trained as a spy, matches wits with various evildoers, and wins out in the end. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling fashion) highly moral Anglo-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed the “the Great Game” -– the competition between Britain and Russia for control over Asia. Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. (For more on this time period, check out the 'In a Nutshell' and 'Setting' sections. In fact, this isnt just any old fairy tale time: this book takes place specifically around the late 1890s in British India. Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. Kim Summary Once upon a time (because at its heart, Kim is a fairy tale), there was an orphan boy named Kimball OHara, Kim for short. Download cover art Download CD case insert Kim
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