Kim celebrates their friendship and their journeys in a beautiful but hostile environment, capturing the opulence of the exotic landscape and the uneasy presence of the British Raj. Kim was born and raised in India and plays with the slum children as he lives on the streets, but he is white, a sahib, and wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism while the priest must find redemption from the Wheel of Things. originally published in a Penguin classics edition in 1987.īook Synopsis An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, one of Kipling's greatest works A Penguin Classic Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother, and the lama, an old ascetic priest, are on a quest. v.About the Book Originally published in 1901. To the Companions (Horace, Ode 17, Bk.'In the Interests of the Brethren', 1918.

Debits and Credits, a 1926 collection that includes a number of earlier stories.

Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (British/Indian edition 1919, British edition 1923, American edition 1923 under the title Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls) IA.

The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat.

edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham ( transcription project).

The Comprehension of Private Copper, 1902.

The Crab That Played with the Sea, 1902.

The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, 1900.

The Day's Work (1898) ( transcription project).

The Second Jungle Book (1895) ( external scan).

Many Inventions (1893) ( transcription project).

Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People (1891) ( transcription project).

Wee Willie Winkie, and other stories (1888) ( transcription project).

Under the Deodars (1888) ( transcription project).

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales (1888) ( transcription project).

The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly, 1886.

The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin, 1887.

Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) ( transcription project).

In Black and White (1888) ( transcription project).

The Story of the Gadsbys (1888) ( transcription project).

Soldiers Three (1888) ( transcription project).

Quartette (1885), co-authored with his father, mother, and sister ( transcription project).

'Captains Courageous': A Story of the Grand Banks (1897) IA.

Verse heading chapter 5 Solo from Libretto of Naulahka.

The Naulahka, with Wolcott Balestier (1892) IA.

From A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917):.

' Hymn before Action' in Poems of the Great War (1914).

Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918 (1919) ( transcription project).

Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (1919).

Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (1892).

Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses (1892).

Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses (1890).

Departmental Ditties and other verses (1886).

Echoes, by Two Writers (1884, with sister Beatrice).

Schoolboy Lyrics (1881, privately printed).

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