One of the books selected as a 'Modern Library 100' for the 20th Century, seldom seen in jacket. Richards A174 Stewart 254 Livingston 250. The jacket is in good-to-very good condition (spine quite darkened so as to be illegible, wear particularly at the ends of the jacket's spine).

Included is the quite scarce 1901 dust jacket, in its first state (listing on the rear panel 14 titles in the Uniform Edition, with THE NAULAHKA at the bottom and with KIM at the top with no statement of print number). This volume is in bright, just-about-fine condition (just a touch of wear at the head of the spine). As with most of Kipling's British editions published by Macmillan, the binding is red cloth with in gilt the 'Ganesha' device - an elephant's head with a swastika (the latter had been a ubiquitous symbol in India for millennia its use ceased in the early 1930s, when events in Germany gave the symbol a whole new meaning). The American edition is considered to have been published earlier (though in the same month as the English one). Please fill out the information below to find a store near you. The illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling, the author's father. It follows the adventures of an orphan son of a British soldier who is raised by an Indian woman, becomes a disciple to a Lama, and ultimately becomes an undercover agent as well. The novel is the finest written about the India of the British Empire'. It was first published serially in McClures Magazine. First English Edition of the book that 'is acknowledged as Kipling's masterpiece in fiction. Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling.

Original red cloth with Ganesha device in gilt, with dust jacket. One of Kipling’s major innovations is making Kim, though Irish and therefore a ‘sahib’, more like the Indians he lives among than like an Irish or British boy.London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. ‘ Kim is many things’, writes Fred Lerner: ‘a spy story, a quest novel, a Bildungsroman, but above all, it is a love letter to India, a celebration of the sounds and smells and colours of the subcontinent.’ Kim is also an imperialist adventure tale with a boy-hero, akin to the novels of G. He is delighted by almost all aspects of India as well as by his own escapades: 'It was all pure delight. Kipling's ideal boy is 'Friend of all the World'. These surrogate fathers are sure that Kim is the very person they need, either to play the Great Game or, in the case of the Lama, to help find the sacred River of the Arrow. The Irish orphan travels among all sorts of Indians with enviable freedom and street smarts while watched over by a diversity of caring father figures: the Teshoo Lama, Mahbub Ali, Lurgan Sahib, Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, Col. But in his most successful novel, he wrote about a boy whose enjoyment of 'happy Asiatic disorder' matched his own. 'Kim dived into the happy Asiatic disorder which, if you only allow time, will bring you everything that a simple man needs.' Rudyard Kipling was far from being a 'simple man'.

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