Kim es una novela picaresca y de espionaje del escritor Sir Rudyard Kipling. Publicada en 1901 por MacMillan & Co. Ltd., tiene como fondo el conflicto politico en Asia Central entre el Imperio Ruso y el Imperio Britanico, llamado El Gran Juego. Notable por el detallado retrato del pueblo de la India. Kimball O'Hara, llamado Kim, es un huerfano, hijo de un soldado ingles y una madre pobre de raza blanca. Sobrevive mendigando y haciendo mandados en las calles de Lahore, durante el periodo de la India colonial. Esta tan inmerso en la cultura local, que pocos notan que el es de raza blanca....

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Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901. The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third, probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the...

The tales in the book (as well as those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families, and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle." 3] Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. 4] The best-known of them are the three stories revolving...

The Jungle Book - Classic Animal Fables by Rudyard Kipling - The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families, and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle." Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of Mowgli, an abandoned "man cub" who is raised by...

Kim, aka Kimball O'Hara, is the orphan son of a British soldier and a half-caste opium addict in India. While running free through the streets of Lahore as a child he befriends a British secret service agent. Later, attaching himself to a Tibetan Lama on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life, Kim becomes the Lama's disciple, but is also used by the British to carry messages to the British commander in Umballa. Kim's trip with the Lama along the Grand Trunk Road is only the first great adventure in the novel... Show Excerpt e those words were written below his signature thereon, and...

INDIA... In the late 19th Century, Kim is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier who died in poverty. Earning a living by begging and running errands for Mahtub Ali, a local horse trader, Kim finds himself drawn into Mahtub Ali's other business... as a spy for the Colonial British Government, and also develops a friendship with a Tibetan Lama. One of the greatest and most beloved novels of all time.

Straightforward, sometimes philosophical, In Black and White features tales such as At Twenty-two, in which an old and blind miner must find his way out of a flooded pit; The Judgement of Dungara, in which a missionary battles against the malice of the High Priest; and The Sending of Dana Da, in which an Englishman meets a quirky independent experimenter . Snapshots of social and political life in the British Raj, this collection throws into sharp relief the uneven relationships that developed between the ruler and the ruled.

The Jungle Book is a collection of stories that relate the experiences of a human child, Mowgli, who is adopted and raised by wolves in an Indian jungle. As he grows up, he learns the ways of the jungle and the different personalities of its animals. He is accepted as a "wolf" by the other animals, but when he is finally exposed to humans, he begins to question his own identity. He resists the realization that he is human because he is dismayed by the greed and destructiveness of those who invade the jungle. He can accept stupidity or savagery, as characterized by certain members of the...