Ages 6 8.Yea, voice of every Soul that clung To Life that strove from rung to rung When Devadatta’s rule was young, The warm wind brings Kamakura.īehind them an angry farmer brandished a bamboo pole. Though young readers may not fathom the poem's complexities, the grandeur of Manna's scenes conveys the loftiness of Kipling's sentiments. Flying kites represent temptation, and dull-eyed marionettes represent allies who can't be trusted ('If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken/ Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools'). For 'If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew/ To serve your turn long after they are gone,' Manna shows the boy climbing a rocky pitch, the peaks of other mountains poking through the clouds below.

To accompany the poem's first line, Manna paints the boy watching from a great green meadow as storm clouds approach he stands and watches with a cool head, rather than running in fear. 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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