Kim (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Kim (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Kipling, Rudyard. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781909621824.

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collectors Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collectors Library are books to love and treasure. Kim (1901) is one of Kiplings masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball OHara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. While Kim plays the Great Game, the Intelligence-led rivalry with Russias expansionist ambitions in the north, 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. With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.