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Kim: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) Paperback – January 23, 2002

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Written in 1901, Kim is considered Kipling's finest work, and was a key factor in his being awarded the Nobel Prize.

The text―that of the 1901 Sussex Edition―is fully annotated and accompanied by three maps that help students place the novel in geographical and historical contexts.

"Backgrounds" explores the novel's complicated issues of multiculturalism, imperialism, and racism, allowing readers to glimpse Kipling's personal thoughts about British expansionism. Included are two short stories, poems, and letters by Kipling, as well as autobiographical and biographical memoirs and contemporary reviews of Kim.

"Criticism" collects fourteen wide-ranging assessments of the novel by Noel Annan, Irving Howe, Edward Said, Ian Baucom, A. Michael Matin, John A. McClure, Anne Parry, Michael Hollington, Parama Roy, Sara Suleri, Patrick Williams, Suvir Kaul, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, and Zohreh T. Sullivan.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.

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940L
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January 23, 2002
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9780393966503
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, India, but raised in England until he returned to India in 1881 as a journalist and local newspaper editor. In 1907 Kipling became the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature. A poet and prolific short story writer, he is best known as the author of The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1902), and Just So Stories (1902).

Zohreh T. Sullivan is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling, Exiled Memories: Stories of Iranian Diaspora, and many articles on British, colonial, and postcolonial literatures.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 039396650X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition (January 23, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780393966503
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393966503
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 11 years
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 940L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.09 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 1 x 8.4 inches

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay in December 1865. He returned to India from England shortly before his seventeenth birthday, to work as a journalist first on the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, then on the Pioneer at Allahabad. The poems and stories he wrote over the next seven years laid the foundation of his literary reputation, and soon after his return to London in 1889 he found himself world-famous. Throughout his life his works enjoyed great acclaim and popularity, but he came to seem increasingly controversial because of his political opinions, and it has been difficult to reach literary judgements unclouded by partisan feeling.

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LRWord

Excellent edition for modern readers

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2020

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I bought this book for my family's small book club. We needed an edition of Kim with notes to help us understand the politics, geography, culture, and specialized vocabulary related to the story. The footnotes were invaluable. I found the essays on literary and cultural issues less helpful, but did study some of them, and appreciated the additional information and commentary they contained. Kim contains many references to politics and geography that would be lost on a modern American reader. My reading experience was greatly enhanced by having the critical material contained in this edition. I highly recommend it. My only caveat is that the critical essays date from the late twentieth century. It would be fascinating to read more recent essays on the colonial backdrop to the novel.

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Bernie

Perhaps the most helpful edition

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2019

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Kim is a wonderful book, and probably Kipling's finest work. It can be challenging to read however, due to the use of words that are either archaic or obscure. This edition ( Norton Critical Editions) is copiously annotated with the meaning of many of the challenging words. Highly recommended.

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Donald Stauffer

The supplementary essays are invaluable for understanding and appreciating the book.

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2020

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An excellent edition of a classic that is not always edited well.

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Michael Platt

Good notes, criticism unselective and slanted. Better exists.

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024

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So far the notes to this edition are the best I have found, though even more would be beneficial. What renders the edition uncritical is the tendentious selection of "criticism," the majority of which treat the work not as literature, but as politics, and do so turgidly. For a good selection, consult Kipling and the Critics (ed. Gilbert) with the likes of Orwell, Wilson, Jarrell, Trilling, Dobree, Eliot, and C. S. Lewis.
Dr. Michael Platt, Friends of the Republic

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Douglas S. Wood

A Good Spy Story That You Really Need to Read for Yourself

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2007

'Kim', taken solely on its own terms, is a late 19th century adventure tale, an early spy story, a travelogue of northern India, a coming-of-age story all set in the midst of the Great Game, the Russo-British contest for imperial dominance in Central Asia. It's a good tale well told, if the language is somewhat dated for the modern reader.

But, of course, 'Kim' is generally not simply taken on it own terms because its author Rudyard Kipling came to personify British imperialism as much as Lord Kitchener. The Norton Edition includes excellent articles that provide historical context as well as several critical essays. I consider myself an anti-imperialist, but also admittedly somewhat of a romantic about the British Empire, and I did not detect jingoism in 'Kim'.

Readers interested in even more background will want to read Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game . Readers needing to be disabused of romanticism about British imperialism may want to consider Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya .

At the end of the day, 'Kim' is quite a good adventure tale and a book that really need to read for yourself. Highly Recommended.

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Alan Fabricant

The best of Kim

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2012

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I have five or six different editions of Kim including a Heritage edition beautifully illustrated but not by Rudyard's father.If I only could have one edition the Norton would be the one

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Glenn J. Shea

as late as 1935 he said “I should like to burn it down and plough the place with ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2015

. Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 in India, in Bombay; but at five years old he was sent to live in a boarding house for the children of colonials, in Southsea in Portsmouth. The house was apparently both unconvivial and Spartan; as late as 1935 he said “I should like to burn it down and plough the place with salt.” At sixteen, he broke away, returned happily to India and worked as a journalist and began writing. His first stories about India are dutifully more grim and realistic; but in KIM, his last major work set on the subcontinent, he let loose and produced one of the great romantic adventure novels, something to set beside the very best of Doyle and Dumas and Stevenson—a full flowering piece of Victorian storytelling, with all the confidence and sweep of the period. James Joyce, at the end of DUBLINERS, felt that he had not given sufficient credit to the hospitality of his city, and so ended the collection with “The Dead,” which is surely one of the greatest pieces of fictional prose in English. KIM in turn is a luxuriant expression of Kipling’s feelings for India, as though only a novel which is constantly on the move—from Lahore across the Trunk Road to Benares, from the plains all the way into the Himalayan hills—can contain Kipling’s love and fascination. Perhaps only in so great a period of storytelling could a novel combine a foot-free espionage plot with so many lulling and vivid scenes of inspection and introspection.
Having had a long casual interest in India, I had for years avoided Kipling as being a tout for the whole dubious adventure of the Raj, for all the good those folk may genuinely have done. (As one British friend pointed out to me, any group which discouraged suttee deserves at least one round of applause.) And the contradictions in Kipling’s life were very real and very sharp—for all the love of India visible in KIM, Kipling also raised money for Colonel Dyer after the 1857 Mutiny, at a time when even the Blimps had stopped inviting him to dinner. Perhaps it’s a measure of his art that as the critics, from Eliot and Orwell on to Christopher Hitchens and Edward Said, have struck their various stances to Kipling, some part of him seems always to escape. The Norton critical edition of KIM has many essays on Kipling as imperialist or colonial writer, and yet none of them spend much time on Kim’s relation with the Tibetan lama, which is the emotional continuo of the book, and its triumphant end note. Morton N. Cohen, in his introduction to the current Bantam paperback, is one of the few to notice the mystical element in KIM, and to give it its weight. Like all great art, KIM is a strange and permeable thing, little likely to be nailed down.
Probably any old edition of the story will do, but if you want one with illustrations try to find the one with pictures by Kipling’s father, John Lockwood Kipling—they’re splendid. The essay by Edward Said on Kipling as an imperialist writer is an intelligent and even-tempered statement of the case; it’s in the Norton critical edition. Orwell’s piece is in his book A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS. Peter Hopkirk, the historian of the Great Game, wrote an amusing and informative book on his travels in search of KIM’s originals and sources, QUEST FOR KIM (University of Michigan Press, 1996).

Glenn Shea, from Glenn's Book Notes, at www.bookbarnniantic.com

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D. Watson II

An excellent edition

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2005

Others have reviewed the book, and I will only add that I found Kipling's character portrayals detailed and beautiful while his philosophical discussions are deep and provide rich ground for thought.

The main point of my review which I wish to make, however, is that this is an excellent edition of the book to read. Kipling includes a large number of Indian words, terms, and phrases that are completly unknown even to a well-read American audience. The footnotes in this edition, therefore, are indispensible to gaining a clear understanding of what is going on.

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RAPID DELIVERY & amazing text

Reviewed in Australia on July 16, 2021

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i needed this text for my studies and i’m so so happy with it, as i ordered it and it arrived two days after the purchase. the advertising is a little deceiving as the cover that’s in the first picture isn’t what you receive, it’s the cover of the second image :)