Kim (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- First Published: 1901
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Setting: British India
- Principal Characters: Kimball O’Hara (Kim), A Tibetan Lama, Mahbub Ali, Colonel Creighton, Hurree Chunder Mookerjee
- 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
The Story:
Kim grew up on the streets of Lahore. His Irish mother had died when he was born, and his father, a former color-sergeant of an Irish regiment called the Mavericks, died eventually of drugs and drink. He left his son in the care of a half-caste woman. Young Kimball O’Hara thereupon became Kim, and under the hot Indian sun, his skin grew so dark that one could not tell he was a white boy.
One day, a Tibetan lama, in search of the holy River of the Arrow that would wash away all sin, came to Lahore. Struck by the possibility of exciting adventure, Kim attached...
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Rudyard Kipling (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Rudyard Kipling (Poetry)Rudyard Kipling (Short Fiction)Rudyard Kipling (Long Fiction)Rudyard Kipling (Censorship)Rudyard Kipling (Dictionary of World Biography)
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