Kim
British novelist, born 1865.
Kim is a 1900 novel by Rudyard Kipling.
On 2 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- First published
- Serialised 1900–01
- Length
- 272 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Empire and colonialism, Adventure, Coming of age
Is Kim worth reading?
2 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it: 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library) and The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 78 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Kim
The edition we link to is the Wordsworth Editions paperback (1994), 272 pages.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions (paperback, 1994)
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9781853260995
How critics and readers rate Kim
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 16% of the points available on critics' lists, against 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work