{"product_id":"kim-9780141442372","title":"Kim","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, one of Kipling's greatest works \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother, and the lama, an old ascetic priest, are on a quest. 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. 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. Filled with rich description and vivid characters, this beguiling coming of age story is considered Kipling's masterpiece. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudyard Kipling\u003c\/b\u003e (1865-1936) was born in Bombay. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing \u003ci\u003eSchoolboy Lyrics \u003c\/i\u003ein 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems --including \"Mandalay,\" \"Gunga Din,\" and \"Danny Deever\"--which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJust So Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKim\u003c\/i\u003e--which became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJan Montefiore\u003c\/b\u003e (series editor) is a professor of twentieth-century English literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMen and Women Writers of the 1930s\u003c\/i\u003e (1996);\u003ci\u003e Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays 1977-2000\u003c\/i\u003e (2002); \u003ci\u003eFeminism and Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (3rd edition, 2004); and \u003ci\u003eRudyard Kipling \u003c\/i\u003e(2007). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarish Trivedi\u003c\/b\u003e (editor\/introducer) is a professor of English at the University of Delhi. He is author of \u003ci\u003eColonial Transactions: English Literature and India \u003c\/i\u003e(1993), and has co-edited \u003ci\u003eThe Nation across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eLiterature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990\u003c\/i\u003e (2000).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620991242514,"sku":"9780141442372","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_884ad293-ab36-47d3-9645-82e442d144a4.jpg?v=1748515401","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kim-9780141442372","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}