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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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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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Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Modern Library; First Edition edition (February 10, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780812971347
ISBN-13: 978-0812971347
ASIN: 0812971345
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
269 customer reviews
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#1,352,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is a profound story of love, the search for self, and the resulting spiritual growth of the principal characters. Adventure, and intrigue are laced with humor.The major characters develop through their open hearted commitment to Kim. Don't expect to read it just one time, but prepare to add it to your list of favorites.
I read Christopher Hitchens's review of Rudyard Kipling in his book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, and I decided to go to the source. Kipling's portrayal of the characters are entirely multi-dimensional, making them relatable in our commonality but we can fully understand their intentions with the character development we are provided. The dialogue, if one is unfamiliar with the dialect, slang, and 19th century British English, can be difficult to follow upon first passing, but the story-line is very easy to follow. I would not compare this to contemporary literature as it is simply too different to the current literary style, different literary objectives and exposition, and very different contemporary (19th century Indian-British English) dialogue. However, if you want to get an understanding of Rudyard Kipling's writing, if you want to see the relationship as described by a contemporary of the Indian colony and its colonizers, or simply want to enjoy a well written story from late 19th century British literature, this book will not disappoint.
This was at first glance a book about a boy. A very resourceful boy, at that. Who as the story opens shows us that he has conquered the childhood games with his cleverness and recognition of the importance of symbolic acts. He meets the spirit guide of the next stages of his life in the lama. Together they take the "long walk" of the Grand Trunk, an ancient road from Calcutta to Kabul. This river of people becomes a character in the narrative by itself. It sweeps them to their separate visions, the old man lama's of a river where he will be renewed and the boy's search for the red bull in the green field.Kim is taken into the custody of his father's old regiment, forcing him to realize his status as a sahib. He takes this arrangement in stride partly because he is curious and willing to learn what the whites have to offer but also he knows and proves that he can leave when he wills to. What he learns is the elements and tricks of The Game, a term even in the 19th century for the espionage business.With the lama who is still searching for his river, Kim travels into the mountains north and west of the Punjab were they encounter rival spies working for the Russians who have a State interest in Afghanistan and India. Both Kim and the lama come to harm; Kim takes responsibility for the old man's health and safety and brings him to a friend's home off the mountains where they both can heal.Before the story closes, both recognize they have found what they are searching for and found each other too
Kim is a splendid novel by Rudyard Kipling. It's well worth a read.The problem is that there are a lot of Kindle versions of `Kim' available at the Kindle store. Lots of them are terrible. A very few are good. Unfortunately, the reviews for Kim are amalgamated into one big group of reviews, and so finding the best one to buy is difficult - near impossible. And so I make this review. Well -- and I do have an edition available for the Kindle myself.Since I first made my review of kindle editions of Kim back in 2010, many new editions of Kim for the Kindle have appeared, and many of the old (terrible) ones have vanished from the Amazon catalogue.So I'm updating this review, with information on all the editions of Kim that have appeared since I last updated the review, and I've removed the notes on all those that are no longer available. This review was last updated in April 2013This review comments on each edition I've found, with a live link to the reviewed edition for the good editions and the honourable mentions. I can't link to all of the editions, because of a limit on the number of product links allowed in a review. However, I have given the ASIN for the other editions.First, the ones that have a good quality of text and formatting. All of these have proper typographic quotes and dashes, and italic text where they should. They also have reasonable or good paragraph formatting.Kim (Penguin Modern Classics)ePenguinAn excellent version of the text. Occasional typos, probably only a few more than in the printed book.The footnotes are hyperlinked both ways, so they're easy to follow.This edition also comes with an introductory essay, but opens to that, rather than the start of the actual text of Kim.This text is based on the revised text of the American 1941 Burwash edition, itself based on the English 1937-1939 Sussex edition. It therefore contains a few American spellings - chiefly of words that that take an 's' in British English and a 'z' in American English.$2.99 (list: $11.49)Kim (Penguin Classics)PenguinA nicely formatted edition with lots of extras. Indeed, so many extras that I can't comment on the text, as the sample doesn't actually get to the text itself. Hopefully based on the same clean text as the ePenguin edition ASIN B002RI9KQ8. No illustrations as far as I can tell.$2.99 (list: $11.49)Kim (Puffin Classics)Puffin: B004WNA9BQA nice introduction by Susan Cooper and the text is well formatted, and seems very clean - it even has the correct u with macron character. There don't seem to be any extras except for the introduction - no annotations, no illustrations. This is a good, plain (if overpriced) edition, but nothing really to recommend it.$3.96 (list: $8.93)Kim (Vintage Classics)Vintage DigitalA very clean copy of the text. I only found two definite typo in the sample text (Kutu instead of Kulu, and Oh instead of Ohé). It's also very nicely formatted, with good formatting of chapter starts and paragraphs. Italics, curly quotes and proper dashes, of course. No real extras - a paragraph or two about Kipling is all, really. No illustrations or annotations.$4.99 (list: $13.34)Kim (Modern Library Classics)Modern LibraryA first line indent and no spacing between paragraphs. But poor formatting fo the chapter starts. It has superscript numbers in the text that refer to a glossary at the end, but the superscripts are not hyperlinked. There is an introduction, and a map illustration. This text is based on the original 1901 version.$5.99Kim: Illustrated by J. Lockwood KiplingDurrant PublishingI believe that this is the cleanest version of the text available, i.e. with the fewest typos. It follows the Sussex edition rather than the American Burwash version as the ePenguin version does. So British spelling throughout. Hyperlinks (both ways) are used for the definitions of foreign and strange words - all of Kipling's definitions and lots more.The illustrations by Kipling's father are included at appropriate points in the text. There are ten illustrations altogether, and the cover image is a detail from one of them. The illustrations are just (April 2013) been updated to a higher resolution (768x1024)No essay about the text though. And the Penguin editions have more footnotes, I think.As you have probably guessed: this is my edition!$0.99Next, some honourable mentions. These are better than most, but still with various flaws:Kim by Rudyard Kipling - Full Version (Annotated) (Literary Classics Collection)G BooksIntroductory notes and a general timeline of Kipling's era, and a few other extras, but no illustrations. Proper quotes, italics, dashes, but often open quotes are used for closed quotes or apostrophes, and closed quotes for open quotes. The unusual character u with macron is included as an image rather than as a character, and so does not scale with the other letters. Occasional OCR errors (e.g. zero for capital O) and incorrect extra paragraph breaks. The footnotes in the introduction are not hyperlinked. The footnotes/glossary entries in the main text of the book (of which there are a large number) are hyperlinked, with link numbers rather than linking directly from the word. A nicely linked table of contents. The text gives a blank line between each paragraph, as well as indenting the first line, and some of the extras could be formatted a little better.$2.99Collins Classics - KimHarperPressThis has quite a nice text, although based on an early edition, without the later minor changes that Kipling made. There are some odd errors in it: A space in the middle of a word (ador ation), extra characters at the end of a word (trunnionsbu) and occasionally an open quote that should be an apostrophe (``Tis).Having said that, it does have italics and typographic quotes and proper dashes. It even has the correct u with macron character. Paragraphs all have a first line indent, even the first in a chapter. But the chapter verses and verse in the text is nicely done. According to the table of contents, it has some extras at the end, but no illustrations, and no extra annotations that I could see. Not too bad an edition, if it wasn't for the weird typos.$0.99Kim (Dover Thrift Editions)Dover PublicationsA brief introductory note, but no illustrations. Proper quotes, italics, dashes. The unusual character u with macron is included as an image rather than as a character, and so does not scale with the other letters. No extra annotations. A nicely linked table of contents. The text gives a small space between each paragraph, as well as indenting the first line. The verse formatting is quite good.$2.99And now for all the others. Since I first wrote this review, Amazon has, thankfully, deleted many of these editions. But, alas, several more have been added. For all these, I downloaded the sample, and compared against both a printed copy and my edition. Not that it usually took very long. While there are variations among them, they're almost all quick conversions of whatever was the latest text at Project Gutenberg when the Kindle book was made. I can't recommend any of these versions, not even the free ones. You'd be much better off getting the nice free version at Mobileread.KIM (Annotated and Illustrated with full author biography and related pictures)ASIN: B006R1T3AEPublisher: No publisher given.No Italics. Straight quotes. Large gaps between paragraphs. u instead of '. Older version of the text, with some typos (dried for fried, for example).It does have a little bit of biographical and other info at the front.Kim [Annotated]ASIN: B000FC1D36Publisher: Neeland Media LLCNo italics. No accents. Straight quotes. Dashes are hyphens. A first line indent and no space between paragraphs. No illustrations or annotations that I could see in the sample. There is an introduction.KimASIN: B00ABDHYXWPublisher: Start Publishing LLCNo italics. No accents. But curly quotes and em-dashes. A first line indent and no space between paragraphs. No illustrations or annotations that I could see in the sample. The usual errors in the text (pincers for pencase, etc.).KimASIN: B00865NF12Publisher: Neelkanth PrakashanNo italics. No accents. But curly quotes and em-dashes. A first line indent and no space between paragraphs. No illustrations or annotations that I could see in the sample. The usual errors in the text (pincers for pencase, etc.).Kim (Illustrated)ASIN: B0083I7XWYPublisher: No Publisher GivenNo italics. No accents. Straight quotes. Dashes are hyphens. A first line indent and some space between paragraphs. Illustrations at the start of each chapter. No extra annotations that I could see in the sample. The usual errors in the text (pincers for pencase, etc.).Kim (Annotated Edition)ASIN: B00AV0GJBIPublisher: No Publisher GivenNo italics in main text. No accents. Curly quotes. Proper dashes. A first line indent but also a full line space space between paragraphs. No illustrations. No annotations that I could see in the sample. The usual errors in the text (pincers for pencase, etc.).
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