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- The story of an Irish orphan's adolescence in late nineteenth-century India, Kim is a rich blend of Bildungsroman, spy fiction, and boy's adventure story which is now recognized as one of the most important fictions dealing with imperialism.
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Chapter 1. Kim, officially Kimball O’Hara, is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and nursemaid who both died when in his infancy. He lives in the Indian city of Lahore under British rule in the late nineteenth century, spending his days begging and running errands for locals.
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As a pseudo-autobiographical novel, Kim is based on...
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Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize -winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901.
Kim is the story of young Kimball O’Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish regimental soldier living in British India in the late nineteenth century. Known simply as Kim, the boy is so thoroughly enculturated in his surroundings that no one suspects him of being white.
In an extraordinary landscape and by a unique narrative, Kim ’s astonishingly original characters carry the reader from one magical scene to another. Like a symphony in three movements, its 15 chapters seemingly divide, about equally, to mark a journey from discipleship to discipline to deliverance.
Kim study guide contains a biography of Rudyard Kipling, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes.
Summary. PDF Cite. Kim grows up on the streets of Lahore. His Irish mother died when he was born, and his father, a former color-sergeant of an Irish regiment called the Mavericks, died...
As a pseudo-autobiographical novel, Kim is based on real-world events. The story takes place during Great Britain’s colonial occupation of India at the peak of the Great Game, a nineteenth-century rivalry between the British and Russian empires over colonial influence in Asia.
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