
$26.50
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2004
Summary
Kim: An Orphan’s Journey Through Imperial India
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. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, 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. Du…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780812971347 |
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ISBN-10: | 0812971345 |
Series: | Modern Library 100 Best Novels |
Author: | Rudyard Kipling, Pankaj Mishra |
Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 336 |
Edition: | New edition |
Release Date: | 31 May 2004 |
Weight: | 254g |
Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 15mm |
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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 From the Trade Paperback edition.
“A work of positive genius, as radiant all over with intellectual light as the sky of a frosty night with stars.”—The Atlantic Monthly
About The Author
Rudyard Kipling
Pankaj Mishra is the author of The Romantics. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement. He lives in London.
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