Kim (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- First Published: 1901
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Adventure
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Race, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, England or English people, Storms, India or East Indian people, Adventure, Soldiers, Orphans or orphanages, Espionage or spies, Opium, Bribery
- Locales: India
Places Discussed
*Lahore (le-HOHR). Now a city in northeastern Pakistan, Lahore was part of British India at the time in which this novel is set. Its museum or “Wonder House” (which represents the city’s richness and cultural diversity) has a curator modeled on Rudyard Kipling’s father, who was curator there from 1875 to 1894. It is appropriate that Kim opens in Lahore, because Kipling’s earliest memories came from there. His appreciation of the city’s ethnic and religious heterogeneity owes something to the Masonic Lodge, which he joined there as a young...
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