Kim: Wordsworth Classics
Autor Rudyard Kipling Cedric Wattsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 1994
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption from the ‘Wheel of Life’. Kim becomes involved in the ‘Great Game&rsquo:, undertaking espionage for the British rulers.
This engrossing and moving novel, with its diversity of memorable characters, offers many insights into political, religious and social tensions.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781853260995
ISBN-10: 1853260991
Pagini: 269
Dimensiuni: 124 x 196 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Wordsworth Classics
Seria Wordsworth Classics
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1853260991
Pagini: 269
Dimensiuni: 124 x 196 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Wordsworth Classics
Seria Wordsworth Classics
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in 1865. In 1882 Kipling started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907. He died in 1936.
JAN MONTEFIOIRE is Professor of 20th Century English Literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and Mind:Selected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition, 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007).
HARISH TRIVEDI is Professor of English, University of Delhi. He is author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (1993), and has co-edited The Nation across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations (2007) and Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990 (2000).
JAN MONTEFIOIRE is Professor of 20th Century English Literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and Mind:Selected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition, 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007).
HARISH TRIVEDI is Professor of English, University of Delhi. He is author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (1993), and has co-edited The Nation across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations (2007) and Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990 (2000).
Recenzii
Kim tells the story of Kimball O’Hara, an orphaned Irish boy growing up in late nineteenth-century India, and his quest for identity as he strives to reconcile his Western inheritance with the Indian life he has always known. This edition sets the novel in the context of the historical period and addresses Kipling’s ambivalent relationship with India, the Empire’s treatment of the “other” classes and races who worked to maintain the British presence in India, and the place of Kim in Kipling’s career as a writer.
Appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel and historical documents on Britain’s and Russia’s struggle for control of Asia, Indian colonization, and the writing of Kim.
“Máire ní Fhlathúin’s new edition of Kim is a welcome event. The substantial and scholarly, yet accessible, introduction contextualises the novel in important new ways. This is complemented by a diverse range of supplementary material, which allows the reader to appreciate more clearly some of the debates, texts, and contexts by which Kipling was influenced as he wrote his masterpiece. This is an edition that will appeal alike to the student, scholar, and general reader.” — Bart Moore-Gilbert, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel and historical documents on Britain’s and Russia’s struggle for control of Asia, Indian colonization, and the writing of Kim.
“Máire ní Fhlathúin’s new edition of Kim is a welcome event. The substantial and scholarly, yet accessible, introduction contextualises the novel in important new ways. This is complemented by a diverse range of supplementary material, which allows the reader to appreciate more clearly some of the debates, texts, and contexts by which Kipling was influenced as he wrote his masterpiece. This is an edition that will appeal alike to the student, scholar, and general reader.” — Bart Moore-Gilbert, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Descriere
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"Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama, and he decides to accompany him on his travels across the Indian Subcontinent. After falling into the hands of his father's old regiment, however, Kim is separated from the lama and sent away to school. There, his natural flair for espionage is spotted, and he soon finds himself among the majestic peaks of the Himalayas, playing a crucial part in the secret service's confrontation with
Russia known as the "Great Game".
With its peerless evocation of the teeming cities, breathtaking landscapes and diverse cultures of late-nineteenth-century India, Kim is widely considered to be Kipling's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels written in the English language."
"Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama, and he decides to accompany him on his travels across the Indian Subcontinent. After falling into the hands of his father's old regiment, however, Kim is separated from the lama and sent away to school. There, his natural flair for espionage is spotted, and he soon finds himself among the majestic peaks of the Himalayas, playing a crucial part in the secret service's confrontation with
Russia known as the "Great Game".
With its peerless evocation of the teeming cities, breathtaking landscapes and diverse cultures of late-nineteenth-century India, Kim is widely considered to be Kipling's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels written in the English language."
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rudyard Kipling: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Kim
Appendix A: The Writing of Kim
Introduction
Rudyard Kipling: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Kim
Appendix A: The Writing of Kim
- From Rudyard Kipling, Something of Myself (1937)
- Rudyard Kipling, “Lispeth” (1890)
- From Rudyard Kipling, “Kim o’ the ’Rishti”
- From Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (December 1901)
- From George Moore, “Avowals V: Kipling and Loti,” Pall Mall Magazine (July 1904)
- From Dixon Scott, “Rudyard Kipling,” Bookman (December 1912)
- From Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys (1910)
- From the Correspondence of Arthur Conolly (1889)
- From G.B. Malleson, The Russo-Afghan Question and the Invasion of India (1885)
- From Archibald R. Colquhoun, Russia against India: The Struggle for Asia (1900)
- From Charles E.D. Black, A Memoir on the Indian Surveys, 1875-1890 (1891)
- From Evelyn Baring, Earl of Cromer, Modern Egypt (1908)
- From Archibald R. Colquhoun, Russia against India: The Struggle for Asia (1900)
- From F. Anstey, Baboo Jabberjee B.A. (1897)
- From T.B. Macaulay, “The Necessity of English Education” (1835)
- From William Wilson Hunter, The Indian Empire (1882)
- Rudyard Kipling, “Buddha at Kamakura” (1892)
- From Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia (1908)