KIM PENGUIN CLASSICS
PENGUIN CLASSICS
The Penguin English Library Edition of Kim by Rudyard Kipling He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights Kipling s epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work Two men Kim a boy growing into early manhood and the lama an old ascetic priest are fired by a quest Kim is white although born in India While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment Kim captures the opulence of India s exotic landscape overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj The Penguin English Library 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War synopsis may belong to another edition of this title Yayınevi PENGUIN CLASSICS Yazar RUDYARD KIPLING Dil İNGİLİZCE Yıl 2012
