KIM. by KIPLING, RUDYARD

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Impression: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 1989 * Publisher: Pengun.* Binding and cover condition: Soft colour illustrated card covers. Detail from ?A Drink by the Way? by John Griffiths. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Very slight crease to top front corner. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 338 pp. text. xxx pp. Notes & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore: 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. From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'".* This is a FINE copy with minimal shelf wear.*