Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Rudyard Kipling [0]
From the Pages of Kim
Title Page
Copyright Page
Rudyard Kipling
The World of Rudyard Kipling and Kim
Introduction
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
A Note on the Notes
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Inspired by Kim
Comments & Questions
For Further Reading
From the Pages of Kim
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white—a poor white of the very poorest. (page 3)
His nickname through the wards was ‘Little Friend of all the World.’ (page 5)
India is the only democratic land in the world. (page 7)
The hot and crowded bazars blazed with light as they made their way through the press of all the races in Upper India, and the lama mooned through it like a man in a dream. (page 20)
All India is full of holy men stammering gospels in strange tongues; shaken and consumed in the fires of their own zeal; dreamers, babblers, and visionaries: as it has been from the beginning and will continue to the end. (page 35)
Had Kim been at all an ordinary boy, he would have carried on the play; but one does not know Lahore city, and least of all the fakirs by the Taksali Gate, for thirteen years without also knowing human nature. (page 50)
The diamond-bright dawn woke men and crows and bullocks together. Kim sat up and yawned, shook himself, and thrilled with delight. This was seeing the world in real truth; this was life as he would have it—bustling and shouting, the buckling of belts, and beating of bullocks and creaking of wheels, lighting of fires and cooking of food, and new sights at every turn of the approving eye. The morning mist swept off in a whorl of silver, the parrots shot away to some distant river in shrieking green hosts: all the well-wheels within earshot went to work. India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it. (page 74)
‘Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger.’ (page 140)
‘In all India is no one so alone as I! If I die to-day, who shall bring the news—and to whom? If I live and God is good, there will be a price upon my head, for I am a Son of the Charm—I, Kim.’
(page 181)
One does not own to the possession of money in India. (page 193)
The Englishman is not, as a rule, familiar with the Asiatic.
(page 230)
‘You cannot occupy two places in space simultaneously. That is axiomatic.’ (page 242)
At moonrise the cautious coolies got under way. The lama, refreshed by his sleep and the spirit, needed no more than Kim’s shoulder to bear him along—a silent, swift-striding man.
(page 243)
‘I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?’ (page 272)
The lama held his peace. Except for the click of the rosary and a faint clop-clop of Mahbub’s retreating feet, the soft, smoky silence of evening in India wrapped them close. (page 276)
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Kim was first published in 1901.
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Introduction, Notes, and For Further Reading
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