Kim

Rudyard Kipling with an Introduction By John Bayley

ISBN 10: 1857152034 / ISBN 13: 9781857152036

Editore: Everyman's Library Classics: Alfred A. Knopf, New York & London, 1995

Seventh printing. Codice articolo 016655

Riassunto:

Kipling's masterpiece is perhaps the most remarkable literary product of British India. The story of a half-caste boy, part Indian part Irish who journeys throughout the subcontinent with an aged lama in search of religious enlightenment, the nominal plot revolves around the Great Game: the struggle between Britian and Russia for control of Afghanistan. But the glory of the book lies less in the amusing picaresque adventures than in the unsurpassed panorama of Indian life they evoke: brilliant, moving and intensely alive.

Informazioni sull?autore: Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in India in 1865 to British parents, and brought up by a Portuguese ‘ayah’ (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged sixteen, to work as the assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing stories and poems and eventually had great success with his book Plain Tales from the Hills. After his marriage Kipling settled in America, and it was here that he wrote The Jungle Book. He then moved with his family to England, where he wrote Just So Stories for his daughter Josephine who later tragically died of pneumonia. Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and died on 18 January 1936.

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Titolo: Kim
Casa editrice: Everyman's Library Classics: Alfred A. Knopf, New York & London
Data di pubblicazione: 1995
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good
Edizione: Reprint.