- Fiction, Irish, Lamas, Irish in fiction
Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- First published
- September 1994
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- V-Publisher, Macmillan, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 934
- Language
- Spanish, Chinese, dan, heb
- ISBN
- 9780192816511
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“He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.”
Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction "[The Jungle Book][1]" (1894). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature. ([Source][2]) [1]: /works/OL15400121W/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling
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