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Kim, by Rudyard Kipling, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Rudyard Kipling has been attacked for championing British imperialism and celebrated for satirizing it. In fact, he did both. Nowhere does he express his own ambivalence more strongly than in Kim, his rousing adventure novel of a young man of many allegiances.

Kimball O’Hara grows up an orphan in the walled city of Lahore, India. Deeply devoted to an old Tibetan lama but involved in a secret mission for the British, Kim struggles to weave the strands of his life into a single pattern. Charged with action and suspense, yet profoundly spiritual, Kim vividly expresses the sounds and smells, colors and characters, opulence and squalor of complex, contradictory India under British rule.

Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has published forty-three books, including biographies of Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, and George Orwell. He also wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth

Auteur

  • Rudyard Kipling (auteur)

    Rudyard Kipling est né en 1865 à Bombay. Issu d'un milieu anglo-indien très cultivé, il part faire ses études en Angleterre. Puis il revient en Inde et devient journaliste. Il n'a alors que dix-sept ans. Il commence à écrire des nouvelles et des poèmes satyriques qui lui valent une renommée immédiate. Il voyage beaucoup (Chine, Japon, Australie) et, c'est en Amérique qu'il s'installe avec sa famille, le temps d'écrire « Le premier livre de la jungle » et « Le second livre de la jungle ». En 1896, il retourne en Angleterre où il publiera la majeure partie de son œuvre. Rudyard Kipling obtient le prix Nobel de littérature en 1907. Il est mort à Londres en 1936, à l'âge de soixante-dix ans.

Auteur(s) : Rudyard Kipling

Caractéristiques

Auteur(s) : Rudyard Kipling

Publication : 1 juin 2009

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]

Contenu(s) : ePub

Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)

Taille(s) : 1,48 Mo (ePub)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781411432482

EAN13 (papier) : 9781593081928

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