Kim (Vollständige Ausgabe)

Von Rudyard Kipling

Das Werk "Kim" ist ein historischer Roman des britischen Schriftstellers Rudyard Kipling. Der 1901 erschienene Roman wurde nach seinem Titelhelden benannt. Hintergrund der Geschichte ist der Konflikt zwischen Russland und Großbritannien in Zentralasien im 19. Jahrhundert. Parallel wird die enge Beziehung des Titelhelden zu einem tibetischen Lama erzählt, die die ostasiatische Perspektive auf die Welt beleuchtet.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Erscheinungsdatum: 6. Juli 2017
• ISBN: 9783736869974

Rudyard Kipling

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.