Kim

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Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, 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. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, Kim captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

383 s.

Vydáno

London : Penguin books, 1994

Edice

Penguin Popular Classics

Témata

anglická literatura > romány > dobrodružství > Indie > Angličané > angličtina > cizojazyčná literatura

ISBN

0-14-062049-4