![]() Italian artist Manna imagines the "you" of the poem as a boy journeying through a series of watercolor landscapes: fields under billowing clouds, misty nights, craggy mountaintops. Kipling's inspirational poem the one that begins, "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs" describes how to preserve one's honor by the principled avoidance of political and moral pitfalls. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel." 78 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Kim No. "The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road." The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third, probably in the period 1893 to 1898. ![]() ![]() The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form byMacmillan & Co. Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. ![]()
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