or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
44 used & new from £0.01
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Kim (Penguin Modern Classics)
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book

Kim (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)

by Rudyard Kipling (Author) "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah3 on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives..." (more)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
RRP: £7.99
Price: £7.19 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £0.80 (10%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Tuesday, November 24? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
23 new from £2.66 21 used from £0.01
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Hardcover (New ed of 1901 ed) £23.99 £22.79 12 used & new from £17.84
Paperback (New Ed) £2.00 £2.00 131 used & new from £0.01
Audio Download (Unabridged) £26.84 £18.79
Mass Market Paperback (New edition) 8 used & new from £0.01
Library Binding Order it used
Show more editions and formats
12 Days of Christmas Sale in Books
12 Days of Christmas Sale in Books
Get up to 65% off some of our top titles. Shop now

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Frequently Bought Together

Kim (Penguin Modern Classics) + The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) + The Jungle Books (Penguin Popular Classics)
Price For All Three: £11.34

Show availability and delivery details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)

by Rudyard Kipling
4.3 out of 5 stars (3)  £1.99
Specimens of Bushman Folklore

Specimens of Bushman Folklore

by L.C. Lloyd
£14.79
A Companion to the History of the Book (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Companion to the History of the Book (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

by Simon Eliot
£21.49
The Handbook to Literary Research

The Handbook to Literary Research

by Delia da Sousa Correa
£14.37
Dusklands

Dusklands

by J.M. Coetzee
4.3 out of 5 stars (3)  £4.98
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (29 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141183632
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141183633
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 115,049 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in this category:

    #29 in  Books > Fiction > The Classics > Kipling, Rudyard

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Product Description

Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, 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. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, Kim captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.


About the Author

Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), English short-story writer, novelist and poet. Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). His most popular works include The Jungle Book (1894) and the Just So Stories (1902), both children's classics though they have attracted adult audiences also.
Inside This Book (Learn More)
First Sentence
He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah3 on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.4 Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(4)
(3)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Kim (Penguin Modern Classics)
94% buy the item featured on this page:
Kim (Penguin Modern Classics) 4.2 out of 5 stars (14)
£7.19
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)
2% buy
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) 4.3 out of 5 stars (3)
£1.99
The Jungle Books (Penguin Popular Classics)
2% buy
The Jungle Books (Penguin Popular Classics) 4.3 out of 5 stars (9)
£2.16
Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics)
1% buy
Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics) 4.5 out of 5 stars (93)
£1.99
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

14 Reviews
5 star:
 (8)
4 star:
 (3)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:
 (2)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.2 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid Classic - adventure, spy, intrigue and loyalty, 27 Oct 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Kim (Penguin Popular Classics) (Paperback)
KIM is a superb classic of spying, daring-do, intrigue, bizzare situations, a lost inheritance and one of the best descriptions of life in India under the Raj. I reread KIM at least once a year for the sheer joy of joining Kim O'Hara in finding his red Bull on the Green field, enjoying the wealth of different folks and playing the Great Game. There're the devious character, trader Abu Babi, the gentle Lama, and Kim's lessons in how to spy properly as well as the Widow, the English Colonel and the myriad of other well-drawn characters. Kipling remains one of the masters of story-telling. The yarn is far from 'old stuff' since Russian spying on Afghanistan has had a long history - "the pedigree of the white stallion" starts the action. (Of course, when the Russians invaded Afghantistan in this decade, I instantly reread KIM and chortled at their failure.)

KIM is also a tale of honor, loyalty and devotion as well as Kim's amusing antics for self-survival. The characters are exceedingly well developed, as only Kipling, with his appreciation of East and West, could weave for our enjoyment.

Anyone who aspires to be a writer should put Kipling high on their list of reading.

... After six decades I can still find delight in KIM and relive the thrill of setting out on a long and dangerous road, thwarting spies and saving two nations!

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars In Search of Kim ..., 13 Feb 2008
By Simon Templar (St. Lucia, Windward Islands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kim (Penguin Popular Classics) (Paperback)
As the great-grandson of an Irish Colour Sergeant who married a local girl in Srinagar, Kashmir in the second half of the 19th century, a grandson of a REME Sergeant who was stationed in Quetta (amongst many other such places over two decades) and fought on the NW Frontier, and son of a mother born in an Army garrison and who spent her first fifteen years in the exotic places portrayed in Kipling's "Kim", I was raised on a diet of spine-tingling family tales of the Raj.
When I finally read "Kim" at the age of ten, I often imagined he was a close relation - in the way, I am sure, that many other boys born into such army families might have imagined.
Without doubt Kipling captured an India of the late 19th century. The imagery of his story has never left me. This is a tale told in a dusty bazaar by a lyrical storyteller, one which holds the listener spellbound to the very end. Kipling did in this novel what new (and not so new) scribes should perhaps aspire to. He told a story. Simply and well. These are, and always will be, the finest and most loved tales.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Kipling's best book by far, 13 May 2001
By A Customer
This is Kipling's love letter to India. Kim is an Anglo-Indian boy drawn into the "Great Game", Great Britain's Secret Service battle with Russia in Asia. Kipling's colonialist attitude to India and the Indians may be unpalatable to many modern readers, but his great love of the diversity, the colour and the spirituality of India shine through. Read with an open mind, it's easy to enjoy the story and lose yourself in the magic of Kipling's evocation of a lost time and place.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars No great merit
A while after reading this novel I read some notes I had made at the time and thought that this must have been a cracking adventure set in a beautifully described landscape; a... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Officer Dibble

5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Game is afoot
Although Rudyard Kipling has attracted his fair share of critics in recent years; namely for his strong views on Empiricism (he was very much for it and most of his works reflect... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Barney McGrew

5.0 out of 5 stars a beauty
This book describes life down the Grand Trunk Road and beyond perfectly. It is a wonderful story set during the peak of the Raj. Read more
Published 15 months ago by A. Singh

2.0 out of 5 stars Hardly a classic
This was my first foray into Kipling, being his alleged masterpiece. All I can say is, if this is the best he can manage, I don't think I'll bother with his other works... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mr. D. J. Read

4.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating adventure
I was very surprised when I read "Kim". I was expecting a rather cliched gung-ho story of derring-do, probably with a few out-dated colonialist views thrown in. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2007 by Secret Spi

5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Game
In this book Rudyard Kipling gave us a better understanding of nineteenth century India, as well as the first modern spy story. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2007 by M. Dowden

5.0 out of 5 stars Passage To India
Kipling is an effective and powerful writer, here writing about a young European boy growing up on the streets of one of India's teeming cities, experiencing the dazzling sights,... Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2007 by J. J. O'neill

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece
Kim is absolutely unique in that it is the portrayel of something as alien as Indian culture (to a white British audience) but written by a Briton who lived it. Read more
Published on 4 May 2002 by C. W. Bell

4.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring novel of friendship
To be honest, when I first started reading this novel, I was unsure that I would reach the end. It was not in any way boring but it didn't seem to be my type of novel. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars good if you can put up with it
This is a story set (mostly) in India under British rule, probably around the turn of the century. Kipling loved India, and this book is meant to be, among other things, a good... Read more
Published on 26 April 2000

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject










i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.