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Kim. Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kipling’s native India, Kim is widely acknowledged as the author’s greatest novel and a key element in his winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the tale of an orphaned sahib and the burdensome fate that awaits him when he is unwittingly dragged into the Great Game ...
Kim’s mother had been Irish too. The old man halted by Zam-Zammah and looked round till his eye fell on Kim. The inspiration of his pilgrimage had left him for a while, and he felt old, forlorn, and very empty. “Do not sit under that gun,” said the policeman loftily. “Huh! Owl!” was Kim’s retort on the lama’s behalf.
26 de mai. de 2005 · Kim / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Prix Nobel 1907 Quand tourne la Roue de la Vie… le héros de ce roman de 500 pages publié en 1901 dont l'action se déroule en Inde du nord, s'appelle Kim, de son vrai nom Kimball O'Hara. Il a 14 ans. Il est orphelin de mère et d'un soldat irlandais de l'armée des Indes du régiment des Mavericks.
22 de mar. de 2012 · Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling set his final and most famous novel in the complex, mystery-shrouded India of the mid-nineteenth century where an exotic landscape teems with natives living under British colonial rule. Kim, the poor orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in Lahore, straddles both worlds.
Rudyard Kipling All'età di sei anni fu mandato a studiare in Inghilterra. Nel 1882 tornò in India come giornalista e fu in questo periodo che cominciò a elaborare i temi politici e sociali che poi diventarono i motivi caratteristici delle sue principali opere: il rapporto tra i dominatori bianchi e gli indigeni, il ruolo di civilizzatori degli inglesi e la coscienza storica della millenaria ...
Kim's life suddenly acquires meaning and purpose as he becomes the lama's guide and protector--his chela. Other forces are at work as Kim is sucked into the intrigue of the Great Game and travels the Grand Trunk Road with his lama.How Kim and the lama meet their respective destinies on the road and in the mountains of India forms one of the most compelling adventure tales of all time.
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