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Gewicht:
233 g
Format:
156x0x0 mm
Beschreibung:
Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous . He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.
Der Waisenjunge Kim führt im Indien der 1890er Jahre ein Vagabundenleben. Ohne Hinweise zu seiner eigenen Herkunft beschließt er, einen buddhistischen Lama auf dessen lebenslanger Suche zu begleiten. Auf der Grand Trunk Road, wo Ost und West, soziale und religiöse Gegensätze aufeinanderprallen, stößt er auf disputierende anglikanische und katholische Geistliche, er trifft einen durchtriebenen Pferdehändler und eine reiche Witwe und kommt mit britischen Agenten in Kontakt. Doch dann soll Kim, "Freund aller Welt", selbst als Spion eingesetzt werden.
Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. While Kim plays the Great Game, the Intelligence-led rivalry with Russia's expansionist ambitions in the north, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life.
With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.
With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.