![]() ![]() Kipling described Kim as “nakedly picaresque and plotless” and, in fact, the book was written as by one possessed. This arrangement may not have been planned. ![]() ![]() Like a symphony in three movements, its 15 chapters seemingly divide, about equally, to mark a journey from discipleship to discipline to deliverance. In an extraordinary landscape and by a unique narrative, Kim’s astonishingly original characters carry the reader from one magical scene to another. “I know of no other English novel that so celebrates the human urban scene.” Angus Wilson. “.Kim is great by any standards that ever obtained in any age of English literature.” Nirad C Chaudhuri. Kim has never been out of print, and there are numerous editions available today, including annotated editions from Penguin and Oxford University Press. For Kipling’s own comments on Kim, see Something of Myself, Chapter 5. ![]() The first book edition by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1 October 1901 the First English Edition, by Macmillan & Co., London, 17 October 1901 a Second American Edition followed in the same year American Quarto Edition, 1912 Canadian School Edition, 1936 Sun Dial Press Edition, 1939 and the Modern Library Edition, 1950. The book was serialised in America, in McClure’s Magazine, December 1900 to October 1901 in England, in Cassell’s Magazine, January to November 1901. Kipling started work on Kim in 1892 but published in 1901. ![]()
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