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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Adult readers interested in Indian history and culture and colonial literature
- Students who need to read classics for English or comparative literature courses
- Readers of long-form fiction who enjoy picaresque adventure and identity growth themes
- Book club members who wish to discuss colonial discourse and cross-cultural relations
Not a good fit for
- Beginners with limited English reading experience who are intimidated by long sentences and dialect spellings
- Readers expecting a light children's adventure story and uninterested in historical background
- Readers sensitive to colonial-era narrative stances who do not wish to analyze them
Reading tips
- First learn about the late-nineteenth-century colonial background in India and its main religious communities, then enter the text.
- Read in segments following Kim's journey, and after each segment review the character relationships and changes of location.
- Mark the dialogues between the lama and Kim separately, and after finishing discuss how their goals differ.
- Note dialect and foreign terms as you go and look them up together after finishing a chapter to maintain reading rhythm.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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FAQ
How is Kim different from ordinary boys' adventure novels?
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About the author
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was a British writer, and this library holds sixty-five of his works. Publicly available material on his life is limited, so the following introduction focuses on his writings. He is known chiefly for fiction and fairy tales, often dealing with animals, the jungle, exotic adventure and youthful growth. His language is vivid, his narrative pace brisk, and his stories combine imagination with moral meaning. The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, set in the Indian jungle, tell of the boy Mowgli among the animals and have been widely read; Just So Stories explains in a light manner how animals came by their features; Kim portrays growth and the search for identity in an Indian setting; Puck of Pook's Hill draws on history and legend to tell of England's past; and The Man Who Would Be King displays adventure and ambition. His works are often classed as inspirational coming-of-age reading and have had a lasting influence on children's literature and English-language readers.
