About this book
Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
Themes & subjects
FictionIrishLamasIrish in fictionOrphansBoys in fiction
First published 1994Characters & people
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Setting
India19th centuryBritish occupation, 1765-1947
About the author
Rudyard Kipling
30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936
Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction "[The Jungle Book][1]" (1894). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature. ([Source][2]) [1]: /works/OL15400121W/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling
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