Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899) and "If-" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.
Kim
Paperback
(Reissue)
- ISBN-13: 9780553213324
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Publication date: 04/01/1983
- Series: Bantam Classics Series
- Edition description: Reissue
- Pages: 320
- Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.86(h) x 0.83(d)
- Age Range: 10 - 13 Years
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Kim se encuentra en un mundo imperialista; un mundo sorprendentemente masculino, dominado por los viajes, el comercio y la aventura, un mundo en el que no se trata de la división entre blanco y no blanco.
Dos hombres, un niño que llega a la adultez temprana y un anciano sacerdote ascético, el lama, están en el centro de la novela. Una búsqueda los enfrenta a ambos. Nacido en India, Kim es blanco, sahib. Mientras que él quiere jugar el Gran Juego del Imperialismo, también está espiritualmente unido al lama. Su objetivo, a medida que se mueve como un camaleón a través de las dos culturas, es reconciliar estos hilos opuestos, mientras que el lama busca la redención de la Rueda de la Vida.
Una celebración de su amistad en un entorno bello pero a menudo hostil, 'Kim' captura la opulencia del paisaje exótico de la India, superpuesto por la incómoda presencia del Raj británico.
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